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rafaelsemx

2008-09-13 18:54

Re: cleaning up uninstalled apps

yes, I deleted Xulrunner, and recovered most of the space, but you don't always recover all the space when uninstalling apps, back when on OS2007 I removed canola and didn't remove the cover albums from the internal memory before I uninstalled, and I had to hunt down the covers and delete them manually.

I tried apt-get remove -- purge, apt-get autoremove, and apt-get clean, recovered almost 3MB free :D

iamthewalrus

2008-09-13 19:32

Re: cleaning up uninstalled apps

On the desktop there is 'deborphan' to remove orphaned packages. Digging through the forum I found this command: that deletes leftover config files:

Code:

dpkg --purge $(dpkg --list | grep ^rc | awk '{ print $2; }')

Quote:

This constructs a list of packages which are removed but still have their configuration files installed (denoted by the ^rc pattern) and passes this list to the package management utility to purge all obsolete files. (source)

I haven't tried this myself so I have no idea if this works well. You can see what would be uninstalled with:

Code:

dpkg --list | grep ^rc | awk '{ print $2; }'

so you can delete them manually using dpkg --purge name-of-the-package

fernx_x

2008-10-18 01:32

Re: cleaning up uninstalled apps

Quote:

Originally Posted by iamthewalrus (Post 223675)

On the desktop there is 'deborphan' to remove orphaned packages. Digging through the forum I found this command: that deletes leftover config files:

Code:

dpkg --purge $(dpkg --list | grep ^rc | awk '{ print $2; }')

I haven't tried this myself so I have no idea if this works well. You can see what would be uninstalled with:

Code:

dpkg --list | grep ^rc | awk '{ print $2; }'

so you can delete them manually using dpkg --purge name-of-the-package

Thanks i free 23.7MB of space. when i got my NIT i start intalling app like crazy and unistall almost all of those app and i realize that i dint have space i was looking for something like this thnaks a lot

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