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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:
Yes, there is a bug in 0.2.1. 🙁 It’s already fixed for 0.3.0, which is 97% ready to be released.
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?
BB 0.6.3 as found in the Ubuntu repositories. I am beta testing Karmic. I notice it did not clear .bash_history and the history of “Places > Search for Files > Name Contains”. Can you investigate? Thanks.
emarkay:
The BleachBit version in the Ubuntu repositories is basically frozen because of a Ubuntu policy. Please test the latest version from http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net (.debs available), and if the problem persists, report a bug here http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/contribute
Also, I am not sure what you mean by “history of “Places > Search for Files > Name Contains””
In Ubuntu, go to top, click on “Places”. 2nd from the bottom is “Search for Files. Click there and the open field at the top is called “Name contains”. If you click the “arrow” on the right side, presuming there have been searches before, the prior search terms will appear.
I will get the latest version and test it out tomorrow. Thanks.
emarkay:
I see what you mean. That will be in the next release. UbuntuGeek.com may not wanting us using these comments as a general support forum and a place to request features, so let’s continue somewhere else.
Hi guys!
My problem: I opened up the deb package and I have an error which reads:
Dependency is not satisfiable: menu
I am running eeeBuntu 8.1 (Intrepid) installed on my mini-Asus and have tried installing BB for the simple fact that a mini laptop gets full of temporary files etc rather quickly.
I am no techie or programme bof unfortunately, but I can manage command prompts in a terminal, so if you can help me I would truly appreciate it!
I’m a total Ubuntu whitebelt and was having a lot of trouble with low diskspace but made an inquiry about it on Google, came across your program and, well, thank you. ^_^
you can also just open up the synaptic package manager and check install. it’s easier than downloading and installing. almost every app can be found in there.
Thank you and I did try it:
New error occured:
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run ‘dpkg –configure -a’ to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
Thanks!!!
It’s in the repository now.
This will do it:
sudo apt-get install bleachbit
🙂
Does running ‘sudo bleachbit’ from my administrator account also clean all other ‘Desktop user’ accounts? I presume all other administrator accounts are unaffected?