July 2, 2024
7:01 p.m.
"Michael" == Michael Voorhis via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
Mike puts out some great info, but I just want to make a single comment here, because my main system at home has gone from Debian 9 (I think!) to 10, 11 and now 12. Lots of cruft has built up over the years, and this was a great set of commands to help clean stuff out.
Does your machine harbor software not attached to any software repo? (these are AKA "Obsolete packages") Learn the shocking truth:
aptitude show '~o' | grep Package | awk '{print $2}' | sort | fmt
This really needs to be: aptitude show '~o' | grep Package: | awk '{print $2}' | sort | fmt because sometimes aptitude shows package info across two or more lines.