commands.sh

deborphan

linux

Display orphan packages on operating systems using the APT package manager.

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Options (1)

-n, --nice-modeboolean

Find packages which are only recommended or suggested (but not required) by another package

Example: deborphan {{[-n|--nice-mode]}}

Examples (3)

Display library packages (from the "libs" section of the package repository) which are not required by another package

List orphan packages from the "libs" section as well as orphan packages that have a name that looks like a library name

deborphan --guess-all

Find packages which are only recommended or suggested (but not required) by another package

deborphan [-n|--nice-mode]
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