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Clean up your ubuntu box

After running the system for a long time. Today I found few things I should do to clean the box.

First clean the old package files in cache, When you do "sudo aptitude update|upgraed|install", the packages will be downloaded to your local disk[ locate at /var/cache/apt/archives/ ] then installed. If you try ls that directory you will see how many packages you've download. To prevent these cache from growing we should remove some outdated package by
pnix@pnix-a7n:~$ sudo apt-get autoclean
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
Del compizconfig-settings-manager 0.1.0+git20070717~3v1ubuntu0 [461kB]
Del libcompizconfig-backend-gconf 0.1+git20070709~3v1ubuntu0 [29.5kB]
.
.
Del libdecoration0 1:0.5.1+git20070706~3v1ubuntu1 [2401B]
pnix@pnix-a7n:~$


next install localepurge. [These package will remove all locale in your system except what you choose to keep]
pnix@pnix-a7n:~$ sudo aptitude install localepurge

it will open package configuration for select language you want to use on your system. I select all en,de,pt and th.

another thing is orphaned libraries[ the packages that no longer use]. To find orphaned packages we need a tool.
pnix@pnix-a7n:~$ sudo aptitude install deborphan

Now to use it, just type "deborphan" in terminal then orphaned packages will be listed and you can remove it with "aptitude purge <package>".
pnix@pnix-a7n:~$ deborphan
libglut3
pnix@pnix-a7n:~$ sudo aptitude purge libglut3 
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done      
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libglut3{p} 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 49.2kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 109118 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libglut3 ...
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 21704K
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 3168K

Total disk space freed by localepurge: 24872K

pnix@pnix-a7n:~$

or if you want one line command try this.
sudo deborphan | xargs sudo apt-get -y remove --purge
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Anonymous said…
Hey it is too cool i just did what you have told and my system has more store space

Kudos!!!!!!!!!!!! to you
September 18, 2007 at 7:40 PM
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Thank you foor sharing this
May 16, 2023 at 3:03 AM
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