After various linux beginner's experiments my Kubuntu system keeps telling me that there are unused packages that are not needed anymore and that should be removed. This sounds like a good idea to me.
This is what "apt-get -s autoremove" proposes for removal:
freeglut3 fs-uae fs-uae-launcher gir1.2-gtksource-3.0 hwdata ipython kmymoney-common libalkimia4 libexosip2-11 libglee0d1 libgnome-desktop-2-17 libgtksourceview-3.0-1 libgtksourceview-3.0-common
libgwengui-cpp0 libgwengui-qt4-0 liblinphone5 libmediastreamer-base3 libofx6 libosip2-11 libosp5 libpanel-applet0 libportmidi0 libpyside1.2 libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-mixer1.2 libsdl-ttf2.0-0
libsensors-applet-plugin0 libshiboken1.2 libsmpeg0 linux-headers-3.19.0-15 linux-headers-3.19.0-15-generic linux-image-3.19.0-15-generic linux-image-extra-3.19.0-15-generic meld python-dulwich
python-fastimport python-numpy python-opengl python-pexpect python-pygame python-pyside python-pyside.phonon python-pyside.qtcore python-pyside.qtdeclarative python-pyside.qtgui python-pyside.qthelp
python-pyside.qtnetwork python-pyside.qtopengl python-pyside.qtscript python-pyside.qtsql python-pyside.qtsvg python-pyside.qttest python-pyside.qtuitools python-pyside.qtwebkit python-pyside.qtxml
python-simplegeneric python-svn
For most of them I have no idea in which context I installed them. But at least one of these packages is definitely NOT unused: The emulator "fs-uae" was manually installed by me and I intend to continue using it.
Why does apt-get propose to remove the "fs-uae" package? Is there a way to cleanup with breaking anything and without removing something I need?
/var/log/apt/history.log
whether you have not accidentally removed a package that depended on these packages. (You can do something likegrep remove /var/log/apt/history.log
). You may need to go back intohistory.log.1.gz
if the history log is too recent. Anyway it should be safe to do an autoremove and then reinstall fs-uae. – Jos Sep 20 '15 at 21:32liblinphone5
is indeed needed bylinphone
, as you can see by runningapt-cache depends linphone
. Something strange is going on; I now see that Gnome 2.17 is about to be uninstalled, which is not what I would expect in any Kubuntu system. Proceed with caution. – Jos Sep 20 '15 at 21:52