Remove packages from deleted repository

[Paerez]

I recently removed the compiz repository in order to clean out the packages before I add it and try again.

Is there a command that could list all the packages that are now no longer linked to a repository in my sources list? I want to downgrade what was upgraded, and remove what was added.

[J0Sb31R]

*bump*

[myha]

hehe, same here.... Found anything out?


regards

[mmcmonster]

Not a direct answer, but why not just:

apt-get remove package-name
apt-get update
apt-get install package-name

[andb]

try gtkorphan. Its a graphic interface to the orphan command, which looks for uneeded packages.

[VirtuAlex]

Not a direct answer, but why not just:

apt-get remove package-name
apt-get update
apt-get install package-name

the problem is in figuring out what package-names are

[VirtuAlex]

try gtkorphan. Its a graphic interface to the orphan command, which looks for uneeded packages.
This also won't catch everything - some packages are not orphaned, they just upgraded to "newer" versions

[Paerez]

My problem, as VirtuAlex said, is finding out which packages to uninstall. They are not orphans because I manually installed them. Consider the package "compiz". I installed it with "apt-get install compiz", so it will not show up as an orphan. But not that the repository has been removed, there is no available version.

I was hoping to get a list of all packages that currently have no available version in the repository. I use aptitude always, so I don't have any orphaned packages.

[Gathers]

Could this be what you are looking for?

apt-show-versions | grep 'No available'

[berteh]

Could this be what you are looking for?

apt-show-versions | grep 'No available'

YEEES ! wonderful, thanks a thousand times, this will finally allow me to get rid of the mess in my packages after trying glx.

[Paerez]

thanks! that went into my "handy commands" tomboy note for safekeeping!

[raykroeker]

Another option I discovered. I re-added the repository, then used synaptic to filter packages by "Origin" which gave me the ones I wanted to remove. Then later removed the repo.