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deborphan and for loops

December 2nd, 2008
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deborphan is a package in debian that list orphaned libraries in debian. Handy for removing libraries that is no longer needed on a server. The problem with deborphan is that it only lists packages that are orphaned but doesnt remove them, so I do this:

for i in `deborphan`; do sudo aptitude remove $i; done

I love BASH :D

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