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John Andersen

5 Jan 2011 5 Jan '11

22:15

I've noticed some libraries and stuff laying around in my machine (opensuse 11.3) that are apparently not used by anything (selecting them for removal shows no dependency alerts). Some of these are old packages, as this machine was upgraded from 10.something.) Is there any tool to find this stuff? -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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Lars Müller

5 Jan 5 Jan

23:09

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 02:15:54PM -0800, John Andersen wrote:

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I've noticed some libraries and stuff laying around in my machine (opensuse 11.3) that are apparently not used by anything (selecting them for removal shows no dependency alerts). Some of these are old packages, as this machine was upgraded from 10.something.)

Is there any tool to find this stuff?

rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}\t%{DISTRIBUTION}\n" | sort or rpm -qa --last --queryformat "%{NAME}\t%{DISTRIBUTION}\n" "rpm --querytags" shows the available tags. Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany

David Haller

6 Jan 6 Jan

06:02

Hello, On Wed, 05 Jan 2011, John Andersen wrote:

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Is there any tool to find this stuff?

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From Packman[1]:

zypper in rpmorphan man rpmorphan HTH, -dnh [1] Add the "packman" repo (see http://packman.links2linux.de/MIRRORS.html for a list of mirrors) if you haven't already. Note, that the skynet.be and the unixheads.com mirrors still listed are somewhat dysfunctional and/or dead (-slow). If in doubt, use one of the german mirrors. -- "Irrigation of the land with sewater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'." -- Michael McClary, in alt.fusion -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Geza Giedke

7 Jan 7 Jan

14:51

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:15 PM, John Andersen wrote:

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I've noticed some libraries and stuff laying around in my machine (opensuse 11.3) that are apparently not used by anything (selecting them for removal shows no dependency alerts). Some of these are old packages, as this machine was upgraded from 10.something.)

Is there any tool to find this stuff?

in YaST / software installation / package groups the "orphaned packages" are collected in a separate package regards Geza -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

John Andersen

8 Jan 8 Jan

03:37

On 1/7/2011 6:51 AM, Geza Giedke wrote:

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On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:15 PM, John Andersen wrote:

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I've noticed some libraries and stuff laying around in my machine (opensuse 11.3) that are apparently not used by anything (selecting them for removal shows no dependency alerts). Some of these are old packages, as this machine was upgraded from 10.something.)

Is there any tool to find this stuff?

in YaST / software installation / package groups the "orphaned packages" are collected in a separate package

regards Geza

But Orphaned in Yast means those for which there is no repository, as opposed to those for which there is no "requires". -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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