(solved) Deborphan wants to remove important packages

[zorzi]

Hello,

When I lauch deborphan:

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$ deborphan
freeglut3:amd64
qt5-style-plugins:amd64
ttf-freefont:all
thunderbird-l10n-xpi-fr:all
iptraf:all
libreoffice-pdfimport:all

Most of this packages look important. How can I fix this ?

Thanks.

[Stevo]

One way to to mark them as manually installed instead of automatically in Synaptic. You can also do that on the command line with apt-mark. "man apt-mark" for more info.

[timkb4cq]

Ttf-freefont & iptraf are both transitional packages i.e. Packages that install another package when the the package name has been changed for the new version. Deborphan is correct that those are safely removable.

[zorzi]

Thanks for answering.

@Stevo: "apt-mark manual" does not solve my problem. Nor uninstalling and reinstalling packages...

[fehlix]

Hello,

When I lauch deborphan:

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$ deborphan
freeglut3:amd64
qt5-style-plugins:amd64
ttf-freefont:all
thunderbird-l10n-xpi-fr:all
iptraf:all
libreoffice-pdfimport:all

Most of this packages look important. How can I fix this ?

Thanks.

Not sure what you are going to achieve.
The manual states:

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$ man deborphan | grep -A7 DESCRIPTION
DESCRIPTION
       deborphan  finds  packages that have no packages depending on them. The default operation
       is to search only within the libs and oldlibs sections to hunt down unused libraries.

       If it is invoked with an optional list of packages, only the dependencies on those  pack‐
       ages  will be checked. The results are printed to stdout as if the option --show-deps had
       been given. Searching for specific packages will show the package, regardless of its pri‐
       ority. It is possible to specify -, to read a list of packages

If you are looking for packages not needed anymore try autoremove,
e.g. here in simulation mode

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sudo apt-get -s autoremove

[zorzi]

Hello,

When I lauch deborphan:

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$ deborphan
freeglut3:amd64
qt5-style-plugins:amd64
ttf-freefont:all
thunderbird-l10n-xpi-fr:all
iptraf:all
libreoffice-pdfimport:all

Most of this packages look important. How can I fix this ?

Thanks.

Not sure what you are going to achieve.
The manual states:

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$ man deborphan | grep -A7 DESCRIPTION
DESCRIPTION
       deborphan  finds  packages that have no packages depending on them. The default operation
       is to search only within the libs and oldlibs sections to hunt down unused libraries.

       If it is invoked with an optional list of packages, only the dependencies on those  pack‐
       ages  will be checked. The results are printed to stdout as if the option --show-deps had
       been given. Searching for specific packages will show the package, regardless of its pri‐
       ority. It is possible to specify -, to read a list of packages

If you are looking for packages not needed anymore try autoremove,
e.g. here in simulation mode

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sudo apt-get -s autoremove

Hi Fehlix,

In theory, and most of the time, orphan packages are unused and shall be removed. Thats's why I do not understand Deborphan rules this time.

[zorzi]

I've found command I was looking for:

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deborphan --add-keep <package name>

Thanks to everybody.