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Hi!

Is there anyway to cleanup the leftovers from uninstalled apps?

After removing fennec I found that I didn't recover all the memory that was used for the install, and after trying some apps and uninstalling the ones I don't use, I'm runnig a bit low of memory and want to recover some free space.

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hmm. I'm not at all sure about this, but I tried to run the canola cleanup. Apart from removing canola, it seemed to eliminate other bits and pieces around.

But don't take my word for it, I'm soo not sure about this!

More knowledge pending.
 
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Did you uninstall xulrunner as well? . . .
 
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
Did you uninstall xulrunner as well? . . .
Thought xulrunner is required by other applictions, always taught what was its use, since i do not use canola can i uninstall it?
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If you install applications with 'apt-get' instead of the application manager you should clean up the cached packages every once in a while:

- install rootsh if you haven't already done that
- type in xterm:

Code:
sudo gainroot
apt-get clean

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Originally Posted by iamthewalrus View Post
Code:
sudo gainroot
apt-get clean
What does "apt-get clean" actually do?
 
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Originally Posted by Un27Pee View Post
Thought xulrunner is required by other applictions, always taught what was its use, since i do not use canola can i uninstall it?
No, nothing but fennec uses XULRunner.
 
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What does "apt-get clean" actually do?
deletes .debs from /var/cache/apt/archives
 

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Originally Posted by rafaelsemx View Post
Hi!

Is there anyway to cleanup the leftovers from uninstalled apps?

After removing fennec I found that I didn't recover all the memory that was used for the install, and after trying some apps and uninstalling the ones I don't use, I'm runnig a bit low of memory and want to recover some free space.

Thanks
Use apt-get remove --purge instead of apt-get remove.

(--purge gets rid of files that are defined as a conffile in the deb file of the program that you are installing, usually files that go in /etc)

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What does "apt-get clean" actually do?
Clean out downloaded deb files that are automatically cached when you use apt-get install whatever in /var/lib/apt/archive and on your memory cards.
 

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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
No, nothing but fennec uses XULRunner.
I found that xulrunner was not installed probably was removed along with Canola since i dont use fennec save some space there thanks for making it clear to me
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