NAME¶
orphaner - frontend for deborphan
SYNOPSIS¶
orphaner [
--help|
--purge] [
deborphan options]
DESCRIPTION¶
orphaner is a neat frontend for
deborphan displaying a list of
orphaned packages with dialog or whiptail. Packages may be selected for
removal with
apt-get which is then called to do the work. After removal
a new list of orphaned packages is gathered from deborphan. The program ends
when either `Cancel' is pressed or no package is marked for removal.
After you removed a package, all new orphaned packages are shown at the top of
the list separated by +++++ from the old list.
Orphaner also shows two additional buttons: `Simulate' and `Help'. `Simulate'
does like its name suggest only a simulation of removing and shows the result
that would appear after real removing. So you can see the packages, which will
become orphaned and you can select them and remove all packages with one
apt-get call.
`Help' shows you the status of the package given by
dpkg -s.
Caution: your selection will be lost.
OPTIONS¶
- --help
- Print a short help and exit.
- --skip-apt
- Do not call apt-get, but show apt-get command line instead.
- --purge
- Call apt-get remove with the --purge option.
orphaner accepts most, but not all, options that
deborphan
accepts. These options are passed to
deborphan unchanged, and described
in
deborphan's manpage. Options which are not accepted include switches
to manage the keep file, and switches to change the output format. Note that
switches which take an argument need to passed as one argument to
orphaner. For instance to only show packages of priority
optional and less important, you need to use
--priority=optional
(i.e. with the
= sign, not with a space).
SEE ALSO¶
deborphan(1),
orphaner(8),
apt-get(8)