[NBLUG/talk] Too many files

E Frank Ball frankb at efball.com
Wed Nov 3 13:20:02 PST 2004


On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 06:54:02PM -0800, Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote:

}   my hd is getting full, and I would like to get rid
} of files I don't need (I am sure that I don't need
} many libs, for an instance). I tried "debfoster", but
} that I found not helpful.

"deborphan" can find unused library files to delete.
run deborphan, if you like the output run:
apt-get remove `deborphan`

use synaptic to browse around and see what you don't need.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com




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