Description: The Ubuntu Documentation Project
This package holds the official Ubuntu-specific documentation, maintained
by the Ubuntu Documentation Team. The documentation can be viewed using
Yelp, the GNOME help browser.

So just documentation. I wonder why it’s so huge?

dpkg-query --show --showformat=’${Package;-50}\t${Installed-Size}\n’ | sort -k 2 -n | grep -v deinstall | awk ‘{printf “%.3f MB \t %s\n”, $2/(1024), $1}’ | tail -n 10

wow :-O

I don’t have any other Java packages installed so I thought I’d remove this one too, but… When I try to remove it (through apt-get) it says the package isn’t installed.

Try it from that site (copy paste)

http://ubuntulife.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/tip-como-saber-que-paquete-de-software-esta-usando-mas-espacio/

That make absolutely sense to me, because now I get:

53.160 MB wine
55.301 MB sun-java6-jdk
65.582 MB sdcc-libraries
69.871 MB linux-headers-2.6.31-14
82.582 MB sun-java6-bin
83.633 MB virtualbox-3.0
86.039 MB linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic
88.543 MB eclipse-platform
109.215 MB openoffice.org-core
247.348 MB ubuntu-docs

So thank you very much for that!!

after the dpkg-query and its sort you are using “grep -v deinstall” to show only installed packages. But this information is missing in the output the dpkg-query generates.

(I recognized that there was also packages in the list i had removed a long time ago)

I think there has to be a “${Status}” in the --showformat of the query, because the grep needs this information to filter out the uninstalled packages.

this is my corrected query:
dpkg-query --show --showformat=’${Package;-50}\t${Installed-Size}\t${Status}\n’ | sort -k 2 -n | grep -v deinstall | awk ‘{printf “%.3f MB \t %s\n”, $2/(1024), $1}’ | tail -n 10

you can verify the behavior better when changing the “tail -n 10″ to a bigger value and compare the outputs of your code and my patched one.

Thank you for the replies!!!

I tried to find through the synaptic manager the other version but I can only find as packages the 2.6.31-14.

I suspect that there is some type of cache with old packages that must be renewed/deleted…

sorry forgot to tell you how, just open up synaptic package manager and remove all of them except for the latest one and make sure you remove the headers

You can remove all of them except for the latest one (2.6.31-14 for you) and you wont have any problems

and remember to remove the headers as well

Is there anyway to keep only the 2.6.31-14 and remove the older versions of the kernel?? They seem to take quite a lot of space…

85.867 MB linux-image-2.6.31-11-generic
85.977 MB linux-image-2.6.31-12-generic
85.996 MB linux-image-2.6.31-13-generic
86.039 MB linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic
89.965 MB linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic
89.965 MB linux-image-2.6.27-9-generic
90.043 MB linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic
91.234 MB linux-image-2.6.28-11-generic
91.555 MB linux-image-2.6.28-15-generic
109.215 MB openoffice.org-core
247.348 MB ubuntu-docs

Thank you!

It’s because the text printed on this page is beautified, Mainly double-dashes and quotes characters.

You have to replace the 2 double-dashes, the 4 quotes and the 2 double-quotes with normal ones (from your keyboard :p)

Regards.