Finding unused packages

[John Andersen]

I've noticed some libraries and stuff laying around in my machine (opensuse 11.3) that
are apparently not used by anything (selecting them for removal shows no dependency alerts).
Some of these are old packages, as this machine was upgraded from 10.something.)


Is there any tool to find this stuff?

[Lars Müller]

Post by John Andersen
I've noticed some libraries and stuff laying around in my machine (opensuse 11.3) that
are apparently not used by anything (selecting them for removal shows no dependency alerts).
Some of these are old packages, as this machine was upgraded from 10.something.)
Is there any tool to find this stuff?

rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}\t%{DISTRIBUTION}\n" | sort

or

rpm -qa --last --queryformat "%{NAME}\t%{DISTRIBUTION}\n"

"rpm --querytags" shows the available tags.

Lars

[David Haller]

Hello,

Post by John Andersen
Is there any tool to find this stuff?

From Packman[1]:

zypper in rpmorphan
man rpmorphan

HTH,
-dnh

[1] Add the "packman" repo (see http://packman.links2linux.de/MIRRORS.html
for a list of mirrors) if you haven't already. Note, that the
skynet.be and the unixheads.com mirrors still listed are somewhat
dysfunctional and/or dead (-slow). If in doubt, use one of the
german mirrors.