[NBLUG/talk] personal server upgrade... strategy?

E Frank Ball frankb at frankb.us
Sun Oct 9 16:14:36 PDT 2005


On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 04:02:13PM -0700, Troy Arnold wrote:
} 
} Not necessary with Debian.  I know people who've upgraded three major
} releases now while never doing a reinstall.  A well-maintained Debian
} system does not accumulate a lot of cruft, so there's not generally a

Speaking of "cruft".  "deborphan" shows old unused library
packages that can normally be deleted.

apt-get remove `deborphan`

Unless you added libraries for things you hand compiled it
won't remove anything you need.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at frankb.us



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