From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from agogare.doit.wisc.edu ([144.92.197.211]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HY6X8-0005ub-00 for ; Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:20:14 -0400 Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) id <0JFU00K015TJFT00@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sun, 01 Apr 2007 15:20:07 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mcgee (dyn-192-54.vpn.wisc.edu [146.151.192.54]) by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTPSA id <0JFU00I2F5TI0D20@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sun, 01 Apr 2007 15:20:06 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 15:20:08 -0500 From: John Heim Subject: Re: couple linux(deb) questions To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-id: <019701c7749b$2494c170$36c09792@mcgee> Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=original Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=146.151.192.54 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-11, Version=5.3.0.289146, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.0.283055, Antispam-Data: 2007.4.1.131134, SenderIP=146.151.192.54 References: <000c01c773ba$128732b0$6401a8c0@blanchew2fs98i> X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:20:19 -0000 I hate it when people don't answer the question actually asked but based on this question and the one you asked about finding duplicate files, I'm going to guess you're trying to free up some disk space. Well, looking for orphaned libs is probably a waste of time. You'll never free up much space that way. You might be able to do something with the tools for finding orphaned packages. That would allow you to remove whole apps rather than just the libs they may use. But even that probably won't get you much. If you're running out of space, you should look in your home directories. Use the du command to see where most of it is going. ie: $ du -sh * I have a laptop with a 6 Gb drive and it is only 30% full. And I have apache, mysql, gcc, perl, and a bunch of other tools installed. I've always just installed anything I wanted. Never had any problems with disk space. The only thing is I don't have X installed. But even so, your os just doesn't take up that much space. And the libs are only a small part of the os. I would forget about looking to free up space by removing libs. You're more likely to trash something important than you are to free up significant space. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Littlefield, Tyler" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 12:28 PM Subject: couple linux(deb) questions > Hello list, > I've got a couple questions. > First, is there a way to find out what libs are installed, but aren't > being depended on? I know I have extra packages, and don't want to keep > them if I don't meed them, e.g libraries mainly. > Second, is there a way to get all my manpages installed? I used to be able > to do man cfunction, and I could see something, now I don't get anything. > I believe I'm missing a package, just not sure which. > Thanks, > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >