[Cialug] Emergency help.. What to remove to get disk space

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

On Friday July 18 2008 12:31, Todd Walton wrote:
>I've been trying for the past 30 minutes or so to find a way to list
>only installed and optional packages.  So far I've gotten this:
>
>apt-cache show `dpkg -l | cut --delimiter=" " --fields=3` |grep -A 1
> Package

Try this:
$ aptitude search '~i~poptional' -F '%p'

In my Debian notes i have the following one; it will show packages that 
were part of the initial install that have since been removed. Probably 
not useful for you right now, but shows slightly more complex package 
selection:
$ aptitude search '!~i(~pimportant|~pstandard|~prequired)' -F '%p %P'

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