-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've been using this script to update, dist-upgrade, autoremove, and autoclean all in one command. Hasn't burned me yet, running it on Debian 8, LMDE, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04, and Ubuntu 14.10.
- --Bob, who one of these days needs to settle on a single distro ===== update script ===== #! /bin/bash # Program: update # Purpose: Perform 4-step apt-get update, dist-upgrade, autoremove and autoclean # Author: Bob Jonkman # Date: 22 March 2012 echo "Update:" apt-get update if [ $? != 0 ] ; then exit fi echo "Upgrade:" apt-get -y dist-upgrade if [ $? != 0 ] ; then exit fi echo "Auto-remove:" apt-get -y autoremove if [ $? != 0 ] ; then exit fi echo "Auto-clean:" apt-get autoclean if [ $? != 0 ] ; then exit fi if [ -e "/var/run/reboot-required" ] then echo echo "Reboot required by " cat /var/run/reboot-required.pkgs fi # EOF: update ===== Bob Jonkman <[email protected]> Phone: +1-519-635-9413 SOBAC Microcomputer Services http://sobac.com/sobac/ Software --- Office & Business Automation --- Consulting GnuPG Fngrprnt:04F7 742B 8F54 C40A E115 26C2 B912 89B0 D2CC E5EA On 13/08/15 10:57 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > After my update from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04, apt-get tells me that > there are a lot of packages that apt-get auto-remove could remove. > > Is that safe? What is the underlying idea? > > I think that it removes things that were added due to dependencies > where those dependencies no longer exist. In the back of my mind, > I worry that sometimes dependencies might be things that I wanted > independently of why they were installed, but I'm not sure of > that. > > Do people fine apt-get auto-remove works great or do you find that > it throws a few babies out with the bathwater? --- Talk Mailing > List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Ensure confidentiality, authenticity, non-repudiability iEYEARECAAYFAlXRIIQACgkQuRKJsNLM5eq04gCdEILdUAWtfLjJYF4ieiWb+svx jdQAnjxVm+u9uw/SQgMklE0wx1Y8feps =oXa2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
