Remove dependencies after apt-get remove metapackage

[djt78]

Hi,

I think I made a bit of a mistake, and I need help to fix it.

What I did.

The supplier of my motherboard had some utility for monitoring the sensors. This said it required gnome, so I installed gnome with "apt-get install gnome" (its actually going to run as a headless server). The application didn't work anyway because it required a library that was depreciated a long time ago. I wanted to remove gnome as I want the system clean. So I did

apt-get remove gnome

However it seems if at a bash shell I type gnome and hit tab it give me a load of gnome apps which are still on the system. After a google search it seems to indicate that apt-get won't remove the orphaned dependencies, and I should have used aptitude or possibly some other command autoremove purge etc.

My Question

What is the best way given the current state of my system to remove those orphaned dependencies ?

(I want to try and avoid getting the system more confused, I think I have done enough of that all ready!)

Thanks

[reed9]

Ubuntu -- Package Search Results -- orphan

EDIT: Sorry, you're using Debian.
Debian -- Package Search Results -- orphan

[djt78]

Thanks, I'll give that a look.