-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've been using this script to update, dist-upgrade, autoremove, and autoclean all in one command. Hasn't burned me yet, running it on Debian 8, LMDE, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04, and Ubuntu 14.10. - --Bob, who one of these days needs to settle on a single distro ===== update script ===== #! /bin/bash # Program: update # Purpose: Perform 4-step apt-get update, dist-upgrade, autoremove and autoclean # Author: Bob Jonkman # Date: 22 March 2012 echo "Update:" apt-get update if [ $? != 0 ] ; then exit fi echo "Upgrade:" apt-get -y dist-upgrade if [ $? != 0 ] ; then exit fi echo "Auto-remove:" apt-get -y autoremove if [ $? != 0 ] ; then exit fi echo "Auto-clean:" apt-get autoclean if [ $? != 0 ] ; then exit fi if [ -e "/var/run/reboot-required" ] then echo echo "Reboot required by " cat /var/run/reboot-required.pkgs fi # EOF: update ===== Bob Jonkman <bjonkman@sobac.com> Phone: +1-519-635-9413 SOBAC Microcomputer Services http://sobac.com/sobac/ Software --- Office & Business Automation --- Consulting GnuPG Fngrprnt:04F7 742B 8F54 C40A E115 26C2 B912 89B0 D2CC E5EA On 13/08/15 10:57 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
After my update from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04, apt-get tells me that there are a lot of packages that apt-get auto-remove could remove.
Is that safe? What is the underlying idea?
I think that it removes things that were added due to dependencies where those dependencies no longer exist. In the back of my mind, I worry that sometimes dependencies might be things that I wanted independently of why they were installed, but I'm not sure of that.
Do people fine apt-get auto-remove works great or do you find that it throws a few babies out with the bathwater? --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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