“aptitude show” has a dedicated field for this: You can verify that this is effectively the case with “apt-mark showauto” (it returns a list of the automatically installed packages).Īptitude shows this information with the “A” letter in its interactive interface and in the “aptitude search” output. What does this mean? It means that you have not explicitly requested their installation and that the system should be free to remove them as soon as they are no longer needed.
Libdbusmenu-glib1 libgee2 libindicate4 libnotify1 notification-daemon pinoĠ upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.Īfter this operation, 2531 kB of additional disk space will be used.Īfter this installation, the 5 “extra packages” will be marked as “automatically installed”. The following NEW packages will be installed: Libdbusmenu-glib1 libgee2 libindicate4 libnotify1 notification-daemon The following extra packages will be installed: When you install a new package with apt-get/aptitude/synaptic, it’s very common to end up installing many more packages: those are the dependencies of the installed package. APT tracks automatically installed packages This week, for the last article in this series, we’ll learn more about automatically installed packages and how to get rid of them when you don’t need them any longer.
Last week we learned how to identify cruft on your Debian system.
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