Someone already mentioned "deborphan". It would be a good place to start.
Or aptitude:
Find Obsolete Packages
aptitude search ?obsolete
Make a list
aptitude search ?obsolete > mylist
Remove/Purge
aptitude --purge remove $(cat mylist)
Or install synaptic and scroll through the installed packages and try to remove what you do not need.
My view is the opposite, although I do disabled Recommends.
Packages: 2664 (dpkg), 32 (flatpak)
Or aptitude:
Find Obsolete Packages
aptitude search ?obsolete
Make a list
aptitude search ?obsolete > mylist
Remove/Purge
aptitude --purge remove $(cat mylist)
Or install synaptic and scroll through the installed packages and try to remove what you do not need.
My view is the opposite, although I do disabled Recommends.
Packages: 2664 (dpkg), 32 (flatpak)
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Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on/dev/sda2 916G 163G 707G 19% / Statistics: Posted by craigevil — Tue Nov 19, 2024 1:05 pm
