Comments on: Clean up unnecessary packages on ubuntu

By: montoya

montoya — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:45:51 +0000

Use:
# aptitude remove –purge `deborphan`
is very simply

Bye

By: Tim Ardan

Tim Ardan — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:00:44 +0000

I should also mention, I’m running Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid-Ibex).

By: Tim Ardan

Tim Ardan — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:00:04 +0000

Worked beautifully for me. Thanks for the article!

By: Zeratul

Zeratul — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:27:34 +0000

ncie one

By: kindofabuzz

kindofabuzz — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:29:45 +0000

should be –purge and not -purge

By: CarlosMosca

CarlosMosca — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 16:37:07 +0000

Thanks! That helped a bit. What I found works like a charm without having to change any file permissions, potentially endangering your system is to use ’sudo’ (love it!) like so:

sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get clean

Autoclean will delete the var/cache files of programs that aren’t installed.
Clean will delete ALL the var/cache files of programs stored on disk. This helped me free 600 megs!

The first time I tried to do this I messed with my file permissions and delete stuff that I should have NOT deleted, ending up with a fresh install. When I found out that I didn’t need to mess with my file permissions at all by using these two commands above, I was overjoyed! I have since cleaned up my downloaded files cache (‘var/cache’) regularly. I must add that you can use this command at your own risk although I have found no problems whatsoever. Enjoy!

By: Rob Turner

Rob Turner — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:59:40 +0000

The command below sisnt work for me in gutsy:

sudo deborphan | xargs sudo apt-get -y remove –purge

Worked using:

sudo deborphan | xargs sudo apt-get -y remove

Had to run it 3 or 5 times because of dependencies.

By: Nigel Horne

Nigel Horne — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:08:05 +0000

That worked, thanks.

root@OceanBlue9:/etc/apt# apt-get install deborphan
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
dialog
Recommended packages:
apt
The following NEW packages will be installed
deborphan dialog
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 264kB of archives.
After unpacking 1585kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
dialog deborphan
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Get: 1 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe dialog 1.0-20060101-1 [201kB]
Get: 2 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe deborphan 1.7.18 [62.0kB]
Fetched 264kB in 1s (202kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package dialog.
(Reading database … 101121 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking dialog (from …/dialog_1.0-20060101-1_i386.deb) …
Selecting previously deselected package deborphan.
Unpacking deborphan (from …/deborphan_1.7.18_i386.deb) …
Setting up dialog (1.0-20060101-1) …
Setting up deborphan (1.7.18) …

localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 244K

By: Nigel Horne

Nigel Horne — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 09:44:32 +0000

Fails on Ubuntu 6.0.6:

$ sudo apt-get install deborphan
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Package deborphan is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package deborphan has no installation candidate