[Aptitude-devel] Bug#683866: aptitude does not have an autoremove command

Andrew Pimlott andrew at pimlott.net
Sat Aug 4 22:49:59 UTC 2012


Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.8-1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

aptitude does not have the autoremove command that apt-get has.  There
does not appear to be any way to uninstall automatically installed
packages from the command line with aptitude.

(I don't know if it is a goal to be able to do everything from the
command line with aptitude, or to mirror every function of apt-get.  The
reason I would rather use aptitude than apt-get is that aptitude
maintains a simple log file that is handy to refer to.)

Andrew

-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.8 compiled at Jun  9 2012 10:02:58
Compiler: g++ 4.7.0
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.12.0
  NCurses version 5.9
  libsigc++ version: 2.2.10
  Ept support enabled.
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20110404
  cwidget version: 0.5.16
  Apt version: 4.12.0

aptitude linkage:
    linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffa89ff000)
    libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007fdb8e1e6000)
    libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fdb8dfb6000)
    libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fdb8dd8c000)
    libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fdb8db87000)
    libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fdb8d887000)
    libept.so.1.0.5.4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.0.5.4.12 (0x00007fdb8d5e6000)
    libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007fdb8d201000)
    libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fdb8cfea000)
    libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fdb8cd3e000)
    libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 (0x00007fdb8cb25000)
    libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fdb8c909000)
    libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fdb8c601000)
    libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fdb8c37f000)
    libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fdb8c169000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fdb8bde1000)
    libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fdb8bbde000)
    libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fdb8b9da000)
    libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fdb8b7c9000)
    libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fdb8b5c4000)
    librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fdb8b3bb000)
    /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fdb8eb70000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.6.8-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            0.9.7.2
ii  libboost-iostreams1.49.0  1.49.0-3.1
ii  libc6                     2.13-33
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.16-3.4
ii  libept1.4.12              1.0.9
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.1-2
ii  libncursesw5              5.9-10
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.2.10-0.2
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.7.13-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.7.1-2
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9-10
ii  libxapian22               1.2.12-1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  apt-xapian-index                0.45
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc  <none>
pn  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   <none>
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.7

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  debtags  <none>
ii  tasksel  3.11

-- no debconf information



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