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Install BleachBit in Ubuntu
Download the .deb package from here or use the following command
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/bleachbit/bleachbit_0.2.0-1_all_ubuntu810.deb
Now you have bleachbit_0.2.0-1_all_ubuntu810.deb package.Install this .deb package using the following command
sudo dpkg -i bleachbit_0.2.0-1_all_ubuntu810.deb
This will complete the installation.
or
You download this .deb file in your desktop and double click to install.
Using BleachBit
If you want to open go to Applications—>Accessories—>BleachBit
Once you open first time you should see similar to the following screen click yes
Now you can see BleachBit screen as follows
Now you need to select which files you want to clean from left hand menu
Confirm your delection
Your selected files deleted
Wow wow wow,thanks a lot, I’ve been looking for something like this for quite a while, and now I’m happy I subscribed to your RSS feed
Using it since day 1 and i like it.Its nice ,simple,and fast.Stay tune cause a lot new Exciting features are coming in future releases.At least its easy to clean my system for a newbie like me in ubuntu.
Regards
Why does it need its own software update. That’s not cool.
It actually removed almost 3GB of junk on my machine. Kudos to this software.
@Ben
Software update because its a brand new app that will be updated with new exciting feature in futur release,as easy as that.So i dont know why software are not cool…
Regards.
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@Ben
Software update because its a brand new app that will be updated with new exciting feature in futur release,as easy as that.So i dont know why software update are not cool…
Regards.
yeah why it need its own software update.
I just checked the ones that I saw checked in the diagram. Andrew did you check the others. Was a little worried about that.
I somewhat haphazardly checked everything except the bash history and some Firefox stuff I know I needed (like bookmarks, etc). Haven’t noticed any negative effects yet.
UbuntuGeek: Thanks for the article! A major new release 0.3.0 is almost ready, and the GUI changed a bit.
Readers: A newer version 0.2.1 was release about a week ago. You can get it from the BleachBit web site.
Ben: It doesn’t update the software, it only notifies you of an update (like OpenOffice.org). One reason for the notification is that as a very new application, it isn’t in the repositories of most distributions. However, it has recently been added to Ubuntu 9.04.
Andrew awesome thank you very very much.
Should be:
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/bleachbit/bleachbit_0.2.1-1_all_ubuntu810.debIt has removed about 250mb for me…..
thanks.
I just installed Jaunty jackalope 9.04 with ext4 file system last night.Installed all my apps and of course Bleachbit from the repo and launched it = 350 MB of junk cleaned after a clean install.
Nice job Andrew,cant wait for the next release body.
Thanks again for your hard work,Regards.
It did seem to clean the history in Firefox
It did NOT seem to clean the history in Firefox..
Failed to clean History
Bill:
It’s already fixed for 0.3.0, which is 97% ready to be released.
Yes, there is a bug in 0.2.1.
Thanks a zillion. I have a tiny hard disk and so i constantly run out of space. Thanks for freeing precious 500mb. Can anyone tell me why my HD space decreases automatically, without installing or copying anything at all?