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Cleaning up Ubuntu after every Upgrade or fresh Install | oneiric ocelot

Written by Mel Kham on April 28, 2011. Posted in Ubuntu

Each time you upgrade your system, some packages, or well, data get left behind in your system that have absolutely no use. They do nothing, but take up your HDD space and in turn, waste your systems’ valuable resources. This little tutorial will show you how to clean up Ubuntu after every upgrade or fresh install.

Thankfully, Ubuntu now includes an utility called ‘Computer Janitor’ to make our lives much easier. If you’re from a windows background, you may compare this to the ‘Disk Cleanup’ tool.

If you don’t know where to find it, just bring up the launcher and search for ‘Computer Janitor’

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You’ll be presented with a list of packages and why it’s not needed anymore. Review them as you see fit and choose to keep or throw away.

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After you’re done, just click on ‘Do Selected Tasks’ to prune the selected packages from your system.

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When prompted, confirm it by clicking on ‘Remove Packages’. That’s all there’s to it. Enjoy!

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5 Comment(s)

Mel Kham

Founder of Unixmen, Living in Amsterdam. Am working in my free time to help people to understand the Opensource and to explain them in easy way how to make the fist steps to the the light. Working day and night with my Co-founder Zinovsky to keep this website live even with less resources.

Gregory Mann

I love Mr.Terminal. He’s my friend!
r. harvey

Fetched 12.6 kB in 5s (2,355 B/s)
Reading package lists… Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_natty_main_binary-amd64_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
Bruce Epper

Your comparison of Computer Janitor to the Disk Cleanup in Windows doesn’t even come close. It’s more like Disk Cleanup on steroids – or what Disk Cleanup SHOULD be. Computer Janitor will remove entire packages that are no longer needed. Disk Cleanup will get rid of temp files and general garbage files on the system. It can even remove files that were backed up prior to the installation of a Servie Pack. But all of those files that were backed up for all of those little monthly (or so) updates will be left behind – still consuming your hard drive space (and manually removing them can cause problems with future updates or service packs).

You really should find something else to base a comparison on. What you have chosen doesn’t do it justice.
MediasharpDE

Thanks for this Article!
Rik

Thanks! I removed some packages and hope it will help to help my older computer running until replacement is there.

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