[oclug] identifying 'leaf' debian packages

Stephen Gregory sgregory at kernelpanic.ca
Thu Jul 24 20:43:21 EDT 2003


On Thursday 24 July 2003 19:49, Olaf Baumann wrote:
> Is there a way to analyze the dependency tree of installed packages on a
> debian system to list packages that are not depended on by any other
> package?

I think you want the deborphan package. By default just libraries are 
reported. Read the man page for the command line options you need. IIRC:
'deborphan --all'




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