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), editkeep(8)

April 2004                                                                                           orphaner(8)