couple linux(deb) questions

[Littlefield, Tyler]

Will do, thanks
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: couple linux(deb) questions


> 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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