Disk full -- any suggestions on what to move to SD card?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 07:11:51PM -0400, Giles Orr wrote:
> Another, somewhat simpler version that produces very similar results:
> 
>    alias dpkgs="dpkg-query -W --showformat='\${Installed-Size}
> \${Package}\n' | sort -n"
> 
> I've used this for years.  The dubious winners (since I don't use OO):
> 
> 36008 gnome-user-guide
> 37144 libgl1-mesa-dri
> 40796 gnome-applets-data
> 43448 sbcl
> 49344 libgcj9-0
> 68952 ia32-libs
> 70608 sun-java6-bin
> 71552 linux-image-2.6.22-3-amd64
> 75552 linux-image-2.6.24-1-amd64
> 91180 evolution-common
> 
> I don't even use evolution - but I can't remove it because apt will
> purge the entire of GNOME (which I do occasionally use bits of) if I
> remove evolution ... or even the gnome-user-guide.  I love apt, but
> sometimes people implement some pretty silly dependencies.

No it will remove the gnome meta package which contains nothing other
than a list of other gnome stuff.  Remomving it is perfectly safe.  Of
course it might then declare other stuff an no longer required, but as
long as you don't let it remove that (if using aptitude) you will still
keep the rest of gnome.  You can even just ask it to install those other
pieces and it will keep them installed from then on.

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Len Sorensen
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