deborphan is a program that finds orphan packages and just lists them. It has other options but I am not explaining them here.
In Debian it can be installed just with:
or
Then, just run the program to print the list of orphan packages. It does not need root privileges as it only prints out the name of the packages.
Then it is up to you if you want to remove everything or just some of the packages. I am not completly sure if it is safe to remove all of them, read more in the original source.
If you want to remove one of them just use your package manager to remove them as usual:
Or use "purge" instead of remove to clean completly the package with all its configuration files.
source: https://www.debian-administration.org/article/134/Removing_unnecessary_packages_with_deborphan
In Debian it can be installed just with:
sudo aptitude install deborphan
or
sudo apt-get install deborphan
Then, just run the program to print the list of orphan packages. It does not need root privileges as it only prints out the name of the packages.
deborphane
Then it is up to you if you want to remove everything or just some of the packages. I am not completly sure if it is safe to remove all of them, read more in the original source.
If you want to remove one of them just use your package manager to remove them as usual:
sudo aptitude remove 'the_name_of_the_package'
Or use "purge" instead of remove to clean completly the package with all its configuration files.
source: https://www.debian-administration.org/article/134/Removing_unnecessary_packages_with_deborphan
