To list manually installed packages: aptitude search '~i!~M' To list upgradeable packages: aptitude search '~U' Using aptitude to list uninstalled recommended or suggested packages: aptitude search '~RBsuggests:~i!~i' Check /var/log/aptitude for definitive information. These commands only provide one possible explanation. Tries to work out why installing package1 would drag in package2. Shows why package1 may have been installed. In lenny, aptitude has "why" and "why-not". Doing this after upgrading aptitude should give you access to this new feature. To list packages that take up most of the disc space with aptitude into visual mode, select Views → New Flat Package List (this menu entry is available only after etch version), press l and enter ~i, press S and enter ~installsize, then it will give you nice list to work with.
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