cruft-ng(8)

cruft-ng8

Check the filesystem for cruft (missing and unexplained files)

Usage

cruft-ng [FILE]

Overview

cruft-ng is a program that goes over the Debian packaging system's database, and compares the contents of that with the files actually on your system, and produces a summary of the differences.

Options

If a file is provided, cruft-ng will analyze this single file and print matching package(s) name(s).
Without any option, cruft-ng will analyze the whole system.

Environment

It is possible to get some debugging information from cruft-ng by setting the variable DEBUG.

Releases

Unchanged in 3 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch).

  1. 9–11

Author

This manual page was written by Alexandre Detiste <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

From cruft-ng 0.4.9 in Debian 11 (Bullseye). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.