Give me a couple of days. I want to reflash - yes, I'm that bored - and might do so tomorrow. I'll try to note all that I do, but part of me wants to see if localepurge and docpurge are pretty much the same. I truly think that they are, and all that's left is to go into usr/etc/ and get rid of the *.install files there.

The rest, I listed above, I'm not a fan of any other themes, so I kill them all but Echo.

Yes, to Nokia it's dead, but maybe not to the community. Isn't there some project ongoing for providing community-driven SSU?

Hey Gerb, if you're actually that bored with your tablet as of late, maybe you should look into making your own custom desktop theme.

It brought back a little life and joy with mine.

I cannot link to it explicitly, but I swear that's been shot down as well. A community based SSU and have it kill your device would be... a bad thing. Especially if there was no governing body to commit, test/QA the updates. I love this community, but that would make even me leary.

Okay... this is my own personal method for removing a lot of unwanted/unnecessary flies on my N810. This isn't perfect, there's quite a few tweaks that I use also with the browser and other stuff - all pretty much taken from Brontide (see first post in this thread for the link to that thread) or other threads here at TMO - and came up with the following just for space. Speed tweaks are different and not really listed here...

Per usual, your results (mileage) might vary (YMMV) and this is just a routine that I've created over the last couple of years of owning my N810 and I tend to do this when I'm bored or want to reflash my N810 because I got too adventurous with some of the (then) newer apps on this site. No more updates, no more stuff to try other than DialCentral.

I start with the following Application Catalogs:

Nokia Catalog
http://catalogue.tableteer.nokia.com/certified/
user

Nokia Catalog (3rd Party Software)
http://catalogue.tableteer.nokia.com/non-certified/
user

maemo Extras - Diablo
http://repository.maemo.org/extras
diablo
free non-free

maemo Extras - Chinook
http://repository.maemo.org/extras
chinook
free non-free
*disabled

maemo Extras - Devel
http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/
diablo
free

Collabora - Diablo
http://packages.collabora.co.uk/maemo/
diablo
user

RTComm Beta - Diablo
http://repository.maemo.org/rtcomm/
diablo
free

Fring
http://reg.fring.com/repository/
chinook
release

Innologies Package Repository
http://repository.innologies.com
user

MGPov Diablo
http://mg.pov.lt/770/
diablo
user other

Qole's Repository
http://qole.org/repository/
maemo
main

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Then install pretty much in this order:

advanced-backlight 0.15-0
DialCentral 1.0.10-8
Evince 2.2.1.1-1.maemo8
hometools 0.9.5-1
large-statusbar-clock 0.7-7
mauku 0.6.2
mPlayer 1.0rc1-maemo.29.n8x0
rootsh 1.8
Tear 0.3.5
RTComm Beta 2.4.1

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Then start with removing things...

root
cd /etc
rm *install -r

note: This step kills the gizmo, skype and rhapsody installers - saves very little space.

cd /usr/share/applications/hildon

rm voip*
rm rhap*
rm osso_rss*
rm osso_help*
rm osso-global*
rm bookma*
rm giz*
rm hwr*
rm osso-addr*
rm modest*
rm chat*

note: My install is a bit different, but I tend to not use Rhapsody, Search and a few others since some are duplicated in the main icons (Contacts, New Internet Call, New Chat, New E-mail for instance. Bookmarks can be accessed via the Web icon too)

cd /usr/share/applications/hildon-home

rm promo*

note: Reminder, this is my typical install, feel free to ignore these deletions outside of the Rhapsody, Skype and Gizmo desktop files.

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Then I use localepurge & docpurge to get rid of some locales on programs and files that I'd never use. Install in this order:

note: Mine were on my external memory card in a folder named Downloads

cd /media/mmc1/Downloads
dpkg -i pcregrep_6.7-1osso1_armel.deb
dpkg -i color_ls_1.0-1_armel.deb
dpkg -i libpcre3_6.7-1osso1_armel.deb
dpkg -i localepurge_0.5.8_all.modfied.modfied.deb

run: localepurge && docpurge

This setup assumes that you are using US-EN - EN_US. If you're using something else as your default language use this:
This comes from this thread - thanks to qwerty12 for his work on this.

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note: I tend to disable Metalayer-crawler because it tends to get stuck sometimes, eats up RAM and battery juice.

update-rc.d metalayer-crawler remove

note: this will remove the ability of the Media Player from auto-recognizing/autoload into Library recently uploaded files - I just click the ones I want to load as I wish to anyway.

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note: I tend to remove the rest because even after doing so a few times, I've never had a problem, YMMV

cd /usr/share/common-licenses
rm *

cd /usr/share/doc
rm *

cd /usr/share/gtk-doc
rm * -r

cd /usr/share/info
rm *

cd /usr/share/backgrounds
rm *.png

note: I use only the echo.desktop, so I remove all other *.desktop except default.desktop and echo.desktop. I also do not ever use the standard backgrounds. Again, YMMV

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note: Extra removals - I don't suggest these fully, but I tend to these anyway

cd /usr/share/keyboards

note: I remove all but: en_US.vkb, latin.special.vkb and en_GB.vkb

cd /usr/share/locale/

note: I remove all but: en@boldquot, en_CA, en_GB, en@quot, and en_US

cd /usr/share/osso-help

note: I remove all but: en_US, en_GB and graphics here

cd /usr/share/themes

note: I remove all but: echo, Emacs, default and Default here

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This method will save you about 26mb before disabling all of the aforementioned Application Catalogs, around 33mb or so after disabling all of the Application Catalogs - Extras-Devel is the biggest culprit.

But that's my quick method to update and rid my machine of unused space. I tend to do more than this, but this is the quick and easy method. The other tweaks are just... well, because I don't know any better.

I hope this helps just a little. And would love to see more space tweaks added. I do tend to stay around the few areas that have historically not been volatile for me.

This is awesome what you did here Gerb!

I'll be hitting this on Friday.

Real quick though. Is it possible to use the backup/restore feature (I personally have never used this) and share with us whatever it squirts out so we could simply restore the tablet to the way you have yours currently?

Thanks again for this chief.

Backup/restore works fine for the installed apps, as well as the other stuff. But the removals all have to be done again. Same for a lot of the other tweaks.

But to be honest, that's what I do normally... I install the apps, arrange my apps like I tend to use them... then backup right there. THEN go remove the stuff. Shortens my time incredibly - but for this one, I did the full install so I could take notes as I went along.

I'm sure I left something out - I'm about .4mb higher than my norm; but it's close enough for me not to go insane.

So the four debbies you posted remove all of the language files and fonts that aren't English based in Diablo?

They move all of the language files and man files for the apps - some 14-15mb worth is laying around.

usr/share/locale will still have files - I remove those separately a bit later in the above documentation.

Thanks!

So I take it that you apt-get remove those debbies afterward then?