couple linux(deb) questions

[John Heim]

I hate it when people don't answer the question actually asked but based on 
this question and the one you asked about finding duplicate files, I'm going 
to guess you're trying to free up some disk space. Well, looking for 
orphaned libs is probably a waste of time. You'll never free up much space 
that way.

You might be able to do something with the tools for finding orphaned 
packages. That would allow you to remove whole apps rather than just the 
libs they may use. But even that probably won't get you much.

If you're running out of space, you should look in your home directories. 
Use the du command to see where most of it is going. ie:

$ du -sh *

I have a laptop with a 6 Gb drive and it is only 30% full. And I have 
apache, mysql, gcc, perl, and a bunch of other tools installed. I've always 
just installed anything I wanted. Never had any problems with disk space. 
The only thing is I don't have X installed. But even so, your os just 
doesn't take up that much space. And the libs are only a small part of the 
os. I would forget about looking to free up space by removing libs. You're 
more likely to trash  something important than you are to free up 
significant space.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Littlefield, Tyler" <compgeek13 at gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 12:28 PM
Subject: couple linux(deb) questions


> Hello list,
> I've got a couple questions.
> First, is there a way to find out what libs are installed, but aren't 
> being depended on? I know I have extra packages, and don't want to keep 
> them if I don't meed them, e.g libraries mainly.
> Second, is there a way to get all my manpages installed? I used to be able 
> to do man cfunction, and I could see something, now I don't get anything. 
> I believe I'm missing a package, just not sure which.
> Thanks,
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