Re: Roll back octave package dependencies?

[Kai Torben Ohlhus]

On 4/21/20 1:27 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just installed Octave on a fresh install of Ubuntu (bionic), following
> the instructions in:
> 
> https://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Debian_systems .
> 
> I should have stopped with the binaries, but mistakenly plunged ahead
> and also installed the dependencies, because I forgot I was just going
> to use Octave rather than build it. Again I followed instructions in the
> above web page:
> 
>   * *Ubuntu 18.04 (LTS)*
> 
>     sudo apt-get install gcc g++ gfortran make libblas-dev liblapack-dev
>     libpcre3-dev libarpack2-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev epstool libfftw3-dev
>     transfig libfltk1.3-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev
>     libgl2ps-dev libglpk-dev libreadline-dev gnuplot-x11
>     libgraphicsmagick++1-dev libhdf5-serial-dev openjdk-8-jdk
>     libsndfile1-dev llvm-dev lpr texinfo libgl1-mesa-dev libosmesa6-dev
>     pstoedit portaudio19-dev libqhull-dev libqrupdate-dev
>     libqscintilla2-dev libsuitesparse-dev texlive
>     texlive-generic-recommended libxft-dev zlib1g-dev autoconf automake
>     bison flex gperf gzip icoutils librsvg2-bin libtool perl rsync tar
>     qtbase5-dev qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libqscintilla2-qt5-dev
> 
> So now I have a lot of extra stuff I'm not planning to use. What's the
> best way to remove all of this without harming the Ubuntu
> build-essentials or the executable Octave software itself? Or is it best
> to leave it as-is?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Doug MacDonald
> 

In general, it should not harm to have those extra packages installed
and the required disk space should neither overwhelm a standard desktop
or laptop.

Maybe you can make use of "/var/log/apt/history.log" to identify those
packages [1]?

HTH,
Kai

[1]
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/510811/how-to-uninstall-or-remove-recently-installed-packages