diff --git a/.bashrc b/.bashrc
index aff194fa0d4a2212fbe4fcb66cb7da9df358cc6a..764c364b0f8e70493e0bf32b348136f64d6385cd 100644
--- a/.bashrc
+++ b/.bashrc
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ alias l='ls -CF'
 alias gcc='gcc --std=c99 -Wall'
 alias dpkglog="grep -v 'status\|trigproc\|configure' /var/log/dpkg.log"
 alias deborphan='deborphan -a --no-show-section'
+alias aptitude='aptitude --display-format %p --quiet'
+alias obsolete='aptitude search ?obsolete'
+alias missing-recommends="aptitude search '~RBrecommends:~i'"
 export REPREPRO_BASE_DIR=$HOME/Documents/Shore/debian-repository
 export EDITOR=vim
 alias ansible-local='ansible localhost -c local -i localhost,'