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deblin
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reply to Caphead
Re: cleaning a deb system

Another thing you can do to clean your system is to use deborphan to find so-called "orphan packages" - e.g. packages that have been replaced by another package or were incorporated into another package. This is more common for unstable/testing, but can happen in stable as well.

You can then run `deborphan` and look at the list to see what you can remove by inspection, or do something like:

apt-get remove --purge `deborphan`

Hope that helps.
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apt-get remove --purge ignorance
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