bionic (8) orphaner.8.gz

Provided by: deborphan_1.7.28.8ubuntu2_amd64 bug

NAME

       orphaner - frontend for deborphan

SYNOPSIS

       orphaner [--help|--purge] [deborphan options]

DESCRIPTION

       orphaner is a neat frontend for deborphan displaying a list of orphaned packages with dialog or whiptail.
       Packages may be selected for removal with apt-get which is then called to do the work.  After  removal  a
       new  list  of  orphaned  packages  is  gathered  from deborphan. The program ends when either `Cancel' is
       pressed or no package is marked for removal.

       After you removed a package, all new orphaned packages are shown at the top  of  the  list  separated  by
       +++++ from the old list.

       Orphaner also shows two additional buttons: `Simulate' and `Help'.  `Simulate' does like its name suggest
       only a simulation of removing and shows the result that would appear after real removing. So you can  see
       the packages, which will become orphaned and you can select them and remove all packages with one apt-get
       call.

       `Help' shows you the status of the package given by dpkg -s.  Caution: your selection will be lost.

OPTIONS

       --help Print a short help and exit.

       --skip-apt
              Do not call apt-get, but show apt-get command line instead.

       --purge
              Call apt-get remove with the --purge option.

       orphaner accepts most, but not all,  options  that  deborphan  accepts.   These  options  are  passed  to
       deborphan  unchanged,  and  described  in  deborphan's  manpage.   Options which are not accepted include
       switches to manage the keep file, and switches to change the output format.   Note  that  switches  which
       take  an  argument  need  to  passed  as one argument to orphaner.  For instance to only show packages of
       priority optional and less important, you need to use --priority=optional (i.e. with the = sign, not with
       a space).

SEE ALSO

       deborphan(1), orphaner(8), apt-get(8)