I use apt-get on my SuSE 9.0 system to keep it current. But I worry that I might have bunches of orphaned RPM's sitting around as dependencies for packages I no longer have installed. Why aren't 'debfoster' and 'deborphan' available for SuSE Linux? Is there any way to get them working on this RPM-based system? Is there some other package I can install which does the same thing, examines the libraries I have and tells me which aren't needed by anything I have installed? I did a search on the archives and found lots of other people looking for something like this, but no good answers. What do y'all use to keep your system free of orphaned libraries?
Op vrijdag 12 maart 2004 16:09, schreef Brian Kendig:
I use apt-get on my SuSE 9.0 system to keep it current. But I worry that I might have bunches of orphaned RPM's sitting around as dependencies for packages I no longer have installed.
Why aren't 'debfoster' and 'deborphan' available for SuSE Linux? Is there any way to get them working on this RPM-based system? Is there some other package I can install which does the same thing, examines the libraries I have and tells me which aren't needed by anything I have installed?
I think because the debfoster depends on dpkg: "src/conffile.c" 170L, 4706C /* Various files */ #define KEEPERS VAR"/lib/debfoster/keepers" #define STATUSFILE VAR"/lib/dpkg/status" #define AVAILABLEFILE VAR"/lib/dpkg/available" #define CONFIG_FILE ETC"/debfoster.conf" /* Only simple space-separated arguments can be given */ #define INSTALLCOMMAND "apt-get install" #define REMOVECOMMAND "apt-get --purge remove" #define INFOCOMMAND "dpkg -s" These seem the only dependecy. debfoster seems to be the successor of deborphan. Perhaps you can do the conversion? Or otherwise try to find someone interested on apt-rpm@distro2.conectiva.com.br The program itself compiled without problems. You may try to use apt list-extras as a start. -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
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