1 Feb
2019
1 Feb
'19
7:30 p.m.
On Friday 01 February 2019 11:46:06 deloptes wrote:
Baron wrote:
Thank you for your quick response to my question.
It never occurred to me to look for "man apt"
Many thanks,
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Best Regards:
Baron
Hi Guys,
When I get an update, I also get a message
"The following packages were automatically installed and are no
longer required:"
But the packages never get removed !
Should they be automatically removed or is there something that I
should do ?
Thanks in advance.
From man apt
autoremove (apt-get(8))
autoremove is used to remove packages that were
automatically installed to satisfy dependencies for other packages
and are now no longer needed as dependencies changed or the
package(s) needing them were removed in the meantime.
You should check that the list does not include
applications you have grown to like even though they were once
installed just as a dependency of another package. You can mark
such a package as manually installed by using apt-mark(8). Packages
which you have installed explicitly via install are also never
proposed for automatic removal.
This means you do
apt autoremove
but should be careful to not remove something you need like a
library for custom application that is not resolved as dependency
by package manager
regards