Heya,
I’ve been installing a lot of games that didn’t work. Now I’m in the process of uninstalling them again. Those that don’t work that is. But many of these games also installed a lot of libraries that are now useless since the games are uninstalled. How do I get rid of those? Is there a tool that can help find packages on my computer that is now longer used and then remove them?
Daqar
Not easy
Not worth trying IMO
Others may feel differently - But don’t say I didn’t warn you
Oh well. Nothing to do about that then…
On 2010-08-22 22:06, Daqar wrote:
>
> Heya,
>
> I’ve been installing a lot of games that didn’t work. Now I’m in the
> process of uninstalling them again. Those that don’t work that is. But
> many of these games also installed a lot of libraries that are now
> useless since the games are uninstalled. How do I get rid of those? Is
> there a tool that can help find packages on my computer that is now
> longer used and then remove them?
If you installed using the gnome version of yast, in 11.3, yes, there is a new feature for undoing
installs. There is also a new feature in zypper for cleaning installs, not very much tested. Yast in
kde doesn’t have it, AFAIK.
Otherwise, there are scripts around that may help.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))
Hello Daqar,
I wouldn’t give up that soon.
There where threads about this problem before:
There’s a program called **rpmorphan **and is available in the packman repository.
But be ware! If you find a program which can find packages that aren’t dependencies of other packages that doesn’t mean there not needed/wanted!
Good luck!