[solved] Safe To Uninstall These Packages?

[Anonymous]

Good Day Folks,

I am going through all my installed packages and it is remarkable to see the amount of nifty tools that come pre-installed.
Unfortunately, I am not going to use them all and would like to know how safe it is to uninstall the following packages?

gdisk gettext vorbis-tools usbmuxd runit-helper rpcbind reiser4progs psutils

I would also like to uninstall unused firmware packages

firmware-amd-graphics, firmware-libertas?

Also, some fonts:
xfonts-intl-japanese?

• This topic was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by anticapitalista. Reason: solved

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I, and others reading this, cannot know which exact packages are needed on YOUR system.
If you have no midisport hardware, yes it’s probably safe for you to remove ‘midisport-firmware’. Same rule-of-thumb hold for various other *-firmware packages.

“rcpbind” is not a valid package name.
gettext is probably needed.

Both when using apt command via terminal and when performing package removal via synaptic, prior to the actual removal
you are advised what other packages will be removed as a consequence of the action, and are prompted to CONFIRM.

If you have created a system backup, feel free to experiment (doing so provides a great learning excercise)
but, asked rhetorically: Unless a package occupies a significant amount of disk space, why bother to remove it?

If you “sudo apt install apt-rdepends” (40kb utility) you can investigate which packages directly, and indirectly, depend on a given package.

If you perform “sudo apt autoremove” you can see a list of any current “straggler” packages and are prompted to choose whether to bulk remove them.

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Hi Skidoo,

Fair enough, thanks for the reply. I am using apt-cache rdepends to check dependencies. I am asking, because I am unfamiliar with how exactly the Antix iso is build, but thus far it seems that all dependencies are listed. I have had situations before where a package is listed to have no dependencies, but then when it is uninstalled it breaks functionality of another.

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using apt-cache rdepends to check dependencies […] I have had situations before where a package is listed to have no dependencies, but then when it is uninstalled it breaks functionality of another.

https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/apt/apt-cache.8.en.html
When using apt-cache, perhaps adding the “implicit” flag will be helpful.
––implicit

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Hi Skidoo,

OK great, that –implicit flag is a good idea, gonna use that to further check dependencies.

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