I upgraded to debian 9 yesterday and now I have over 100 packages that according to apt-get is not used and can be removed.
Is it safe to remove them?
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Lots of unused packages after upgrade
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Re: Lots of unused packages after upgrade
Depends on what packages. Can you show the output of
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It is normal to have some excess packages after the upgrade. Most of them are metapackages. Google the term to learn more.
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apt-get autoremove
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Re: Lots of unused packages after upgrade
Its a standard install of Debian 8 Mate. Only thing I installed extra is Chrome as a deb from google. Now after a upgrade to strech I get this:Wheelerof4te wrote:Depends on what packages. Can you show the output of
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apt-get autoremove
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sudo apt autoremove
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
docutils-common docutils-doc espeak-data firebird2.5-common firebird2.5-common-doc firebird2.5-server-common firebird3.0-common
firebird3.0-common-doc geoclue-2.0 gir1.2-gtk-2.0 gstreamer0.10-alsa gstreamer0.10-gconf gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-x
hdparm iio-sensor-proxy libalgorithm-c3-perl libamd2.3.1 libarchive-extract-perl libasprintf0c2 libavcodec56 libavformat56
libavresample2 libavutil54 libb-hooks-endofscope-perl libbind9-90 libboost-system1.55.0 libcamd2.3.1 libccolamd2.8.0 libcholmod2.1.2
libclass-c3-perl libclass-c3-xs-perl libclass-method-modifiers-perl libclass-xsaccessor-perl libcolamd2.8.0 libcpan-changes-perl
libcpan-meta-perl libdata-optlist-perl libdata-perl-perl libdata-section-perl libdbus-1-dev libdevel-caller-perl
libdevel-globaldestruction-perl libdevel-lexalias-perl libdevmapper-event1.02.1 libdirectfb-1.2-9 libdns100 libegl1-mesa-drivers
libelfg0 libept1.4.12 libespeak1 libexporter-tiny-perl libfbclient2 libfbembed2.5 libfile-slurp-perl libgegl-0.2-0 libgeoclue-2-0
libgetopt-long-descriptive-perl libgif4 libglew1.10 libgphoto2-port10 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 libgstreamer-vaapi1.0-0
libgstreamer0.10-0 libgtksourceview2.0-0 libgtksourceview2.0-common libgtop2-7 libhunspell-1.3-0 libilmbase6 libimobiledevice4
libimport-into-perl libintl-perl libintl-xs-perl libio-stringy-perl libisc95 libisccc90 libisccfg90 libjasper1
libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0 libjim0.75 libjsoncpp0 liblist-moreutils-perl libllvm3.5 liblog-message-perl liblog-message-simple-perl
liblouis2 liblvm2app2.2 liblwres90 libmodule-build-perl libmodule-implementation-perl libmodule-load-conditional-perl
libmodule-pluggable-perl libmodule-runtime-perl libmodule-signature-perl libmoo-perl libmoox-handlesvia-perl libmro-compat-perl
libnamespace-autoclean-perl libnamespace-clean-perl libnl-route-3-200 libnm-glib-vpn1 libnm-glib4 libnm-gtk-common libnm-gtk0
libnm-util2 libntdb1 libopenexr6 libopenjpeg5 libopenraw1 libopenvg1-mesa liborcus-0.8-0 libpackage-constants-perl
libpackage-stash-perl libpackage-stash-xs-perl libpadwalker-perl libparams-classify-perl libparams-util-perl libparams-validate-perl
libpath-tiny-perl libperl4-corelibs-perl libplist2 libpng12-0 libpod-latex-perl libpod-markdown-perl libpod-readme-perl libpoppler46
libportaudio2 libpth20 libqmi-glib1 libqpdf13 libqt4-dbus libqt4-xml libqtcore4 libqtdbus4 libqtgui4 libregexp-common-perl
libreoffice-gtk libreoffice-sdbc-firebird librole-tiny-perl libschroedinger-1.0-0 libsctp1 libsgutils2-2 libsoftware-license-perl
libstrictures-perl libsub-exporter-perl libsub-exporter-progressive-perl libsub-identify-perl libsub-install-perl libswscale3
libterm-ui-perl libtext-soundex-perl libtext-template-perl libtommath1 libtry-tiny-perl libtype-tiny-perl libtype-tiny-xs-perl
libumfpack5.6.2 libunicode-utf8-perl libunique-1.0-0 libusbmuxd2 libuuid-perl libva-glx1 libvariable-magic-perl libvpx1 libvte-2.90-9
libvte-2.90-common libvte-common libvte9 libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 libwebp5 libwebpdemux1 libwebpmux1 libwebrtc-audio-processing-0
libwnck-common libwnck22 libwps-0.3-3 libx264-142 libxapian22 lksctp-tools pkg-config python-dbus python-dbus-dev python-defusedxml
python-docutils python-gobject python-gst0.10 python-imaging python-libxml2 python-notify python-pexpect python-pil python-ptyprocess
python-pygments python-renderpm python-reportlab python-reportlab-accel python-roman python-soappy python-wstools qdbus qt-at-spi
qtchooser qtcore4-l10n udisks
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 204 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 217 MB disk space will be freed.
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Re: Lots of unused packages after upgrade
A quick scan doesn't show me any userland programs going bye-bye, just unused runtime packages, so I'd bet that they are safe to remove.
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