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Can Debian identify rarely used packages?

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Mar 15, 20262378 views
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I'd like to find a tool that could tell me which Debian packages on my system have been rarely or never used, perhaps by looking at file lists and access times. This is to find candidates for deletion from my nearly full hard drive. I'm not very well informed about the rich ecosystem of desktop GUI…

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As already mentioned, popularity-contest should help. It will display the oldest unused packages at the bottom. Uninstall those, but with a watchful eye on whether or not there's stuff depending on them installed. Here's a snippet of the output: The…

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