Will do, thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Heim" <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 2:20 PM Subject: Re: couple linux(deb) questions > 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" <compgeek13 at gmail.com> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > 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 at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
