Comments on: Howto Clean up your packages

By: UnklFungus

UnklFungus — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:08:37 +0000

Yeah, I have used autoremove before without any problems. I used it last night and Ubuntu is basically gone. But, hey, who needs 50gb of precious family pictures anyway…

By: Kouakou

Kouakou — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:46:25 +0000

be careful with the autoremove, it may remove stuff that you do need….I found it out the hard way

By: Fergus

Fergus — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:22:15 +0000

Are there any other ways of cleaning up more space? I’ve done apt-get autoremove and I’m still using 94% of diskspace

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:53:23 +0000

I don’t like using aptitude because it defaults to automatically installing all -suggested- packages along with the dependencies, which is very rarely to never what I want to do. I don’t want any extra stuff installed, only what’s necessary.

Package dependencies are required by other packages in most cases anyway (isn’t that the whole point of using common libraries?), and even after years of apt-get installing and removing, very little cruft seems to build up. Not enough to worry about having to clean it up, maybe a handful of packages.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:34:15 +0000

Or just use aptitude when you add and remove programs instead of apt-get… it will mark packages that were installed as dependencies and when you remove a package it will also clean up the dependencies.