Questions tagged [cleanup]
Questions related removing temporary, unnecessary, redundant files or libraries; also the questions for cleaning the cache, logs, etc.
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How to remove data files from uninstalled applications?
I am searching for a maintenance tool that cleans up left overs, including in /home, from uninstalled applications based on the history of my uninstalls.
These leftover files can be small and ...
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File system is getting full quickly. Most of the directories all full [duplicate]
I was trying to clean my ubuntu system and saw that most of the system directories look 100% full. Is this normal? How can I clean these (if unnecessary) files?
this how file system looks in the ...
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Ubuntu remote server: automatically clean up temporary files
I have the following issue: I am using a remote Ubuntu server to run applications / scripts which generate many temp files. They are deleted only when I reboot the system which is not convenient. I ...
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Problem with clean php session files
There is virtual machine with Ubuntu (for Moodle)
Every day at almost the same time this machine is locked.
In logs:
-Starting clean php session filed
-Started clean php session files
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And ...
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Cleanup hplip-3.20.3.run default directory after install [duplicate]
In order to setup an Hp laserjet m14-m17 printer, I ran hplip-3.20.3.run script from the ~/Downloads folder and almost kept the default values during the installation process. After the installation ...
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Webserver is unreachable during cleaning /tmp
I added a scheduled task to clean up temp files in /tmp folder according to the answer.
sudo find /tmp -type f -atime +1 -delete
But when the process of cleaning is going for about 5 minutes, the ...
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Install Stacer cleaner?
Does anyone knows the easy way to install Stacer cleaner ?
It has great interface as CCleaner and everything.
Any special way to install packages ?
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/dev/sda1: clean, xxxxx files, xxxxx blocks
I wanted to install Crossover application by following guid lines from linuxhelp.com and once i got an error i runed
apt-get -f install
then I shut it down and when i wanted to run on the came up ...
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Why are removed kernels still listed under dpkg?
I removed several old kernels using sudo apt-get purge, but they are still listed when I run dpkg --list 'linux-image-*'. I can't figure out how to get rid of them. Any help would be greatly ...
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How to free the memory occupied by a particular process?
I was load testing my selenium with chromedriver and geckodriver, and tried to open 100 browser instances. The system crashed for sometime and then it became alright. But the memory occupied by the ...
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Trouble updating to 19.04
I have been trying to update to 19.04 (from 18.10) today. When I run "sudo do-release-upgrade", it aborts after calculating disk space changes with this error:
"The upgrade has aborted. The upgrade ...
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How to use bleachbit to clean other mounted drives and specific folders?
I use bleachbit to clean (deep scan) my home directory:
bleachbit -c --preset
But I want to use bleachbit to clean my other mounted drives like /media/device1 and specific folders /home/eka/dir/dir1....
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apt-get clean does not clean
I have ubuntu 18.04, trying to upgrade to 18.10 but disk only has 2,8GB free.
I see I have 398MB in var/lib/apt/lists which seems really too much.
I ran sudo apt-get clean but it does literally ...
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Why does the Ubuntu Software Center use Python 2?
The Ubuntu Software Center is described as,
Utility for browsing, installing, and removing software
Ubuntu Software Center lets you browse and install thousands of
free and paid applications ...
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Refresh Ubuntu 18.4 [duplicate]
I want to Uninstall everything from my system except the OS itself. In fact I want to factory reset my system.
Current version I am using is 18.4
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Remove braille and assistive technology packages
I don't need braille packages on my system. So I did:
sudo apt purge brltty brltty-x11 libbrlapi0.6 python3-brlapi xbrlapi
However I just discovered there is also liblouis-data. There are probably ...
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How to wipe and repartition dualboot and reinstall Ubuntu
Right now on my Dell XPS 15 I have dual boot setup with windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04. What's the easiest way to completely wipe everything (getting rid of any partitions) and reinstall a clean version ...
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Boot Disk Full: Server boots and works fine however i cannot uprade or remove old kernels [duplicate]
Greetings and salutations
Question: I'm new to Linux and want to clean up my first ubuntu server which currently hosting a wordpress website, however have encounter error as I didn't clean up as I ...
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Cleaning up the whole trace of one's activity on ubuntu
I am working on an ubuntu 16.04 LTS,
The computer I am working on is temporarily in my possession, given to me by my employer. So at some point I have to give it back.
What exactly should I consider ...
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Why should I regularly run 'apt-get update' and similar commands? [duplicate]
I am completely new to Ubuntu. A friend recommended me to frequently run the following commands:
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean
He said that ...
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Ubuntu very slow after deleting old kernel images and cleanup
Yesterday the partition where I have my SO got full so I typed this command: dpkg --get-selections|grep 'linux-image*'|awk '{print $1}'|egrep -v "linux-image-$(uname -r)|linux-image-generic" |while ...
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Want to remove a failed software install [duplicate]
I tried installing some software but failed and I received this error message. Now I would like to remove it and try reinstalling. I heard that there is a command called "clean" that accomplishes this ...
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What is /usr/bin/parity?
While trying to free some disk-space, I found the following file in my /usr/bin:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 29082328 May 17 2017 /usr/bin/parity
What is this application? Is it safe to remove it? And ...
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clean, autoclean, and autoremove — combining them is a good step?
Will it be logical by means of Debian oriented logic to unite the three commands apt-get clean and apt-get autoclean, and apt-get autoremove into one single command that does all of them?
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How to increase size of my root?
The root of my disk is showing 222 MB and rest others are in GBs. See:
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 14G 0 14G 0% /dev
tmpfs 2.8G 174M ...
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Can I delete contents of temporary folders in Lubuntu 16.04?
I expect that as in Windows, in Lubuntu or in other Ubuntu-based operating systems, many temporary files are created and stored in temporary folders, for example, /tmp and /var/tmp.
To free up the ...
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How or what can I remove from /boot considering it's almost full? [duplicate]
How can I clean /boot or what can I remove considering it's almost full and I keep getting a message that says there is only 5.1 MB left. Because if I go to disk usage analyzer, like it says to there ...
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How to determine obsolete kernels and remove them to clean up disk space [duplicate]
I want to clean disk space
Disk analyzer shows this graph
I noticed the repetitive pattern in /lib/modules (I guess old kernel versions)
How to determine obsolete kernels?
How to remove them safely?
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unmet dependencies libgphoto2-port12_2.5.14+201706200750~ubuntu16.04.1_i386.deb
I've got libgphoto2-port12_2.5.14 errors while apt upgrade,
and they are not solved with apt -f install.
I did not installed anything new, just perform the routinary update, upgrade.
I saw other ...
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System cleanup (Lubuntu 16.04) [duplicate]
I've just done an upgrade of my lubuntu. I see for example that I have in the system old linux kernels. How can I clean and tidy my OS?
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Can I delete /var/tmp/mkinitramfs-* files?
I notice that my /var/tmp folder has occupied by 9.3GB space on my Ubuntu 16.04.2. Particularly, there are a bunch of mkinitramfs_* folders taken most of the space in the tmp folder. I looked into ...
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How to clean Linux and get it back to its original state? [duplicate]
Ok, first of all, the question above might be worded wrong so please forgive me if this is the case. So for clarification let me explain;
In the process of troubleshooting something, one tries ...
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Best ways to manipulate system logs
I want to manipulate logs.
So far, for me the best way to clear system logs is:
truncate -s 0 /var/log/*log
I'm searching for the best ways to:
1 - Do the above periodically. I have already try ...
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Clean system after 2 upgrades and update
I have power mac G5. After many attempts to install some reliable OS I was successful after following steps:
Install Lubuntu 12 for PowerPC
Upgrade to Lubuntu 14
Upgrade to Lubuntu 16
Partial Update (...
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Remove /EFI/Ubuntu & NVRAM after dual boot cleanup
After removing the Ubuntu partitions from my earlier Ubuntu & Windows 8.1 dual boot from my Asus UX-305FA laptop I now still can find the Ubuntu options in the boot menu. I was told that to solve ...
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What exactly is /lib/modules/4.4.0-XX-generic/vdso/.build-id
I did a rootkit search with chkrootkit and it came up with this strange set of files:
/usr/lib/debug/.build-id
/lib/modules/4.4.0-51-generic/vdso/.build-id
/lib/modules/4.4.0-47-generic/vdso/....
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Undo automatic apt-get clean [duplicate]
Researching ways to keep my system slim I came across this post: How can I configure apt-get to clean automatically after every install
Following the suggestion I did:
sudo sh -c "echo 'DSELECT::...
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How to remove everything from free hard disk space permanently and make it unrecoverable
I recently installed Ubuntu on my Windows 7 machine and I have used a few tools in the past that recover data from SSD even after everything has been erased. I was wondering if there is a way to clean ...
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What can be deleted to free up storage in SDA?
My SDA is reaching 90%. Can I safety delete files from /tmp and /var/cache/apt/archives folders based on date, as long as they are not current?
I also tried to remove old Linux Images using both ...
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Cannot clean up the /boot drive [duplicate]
I am trying to clean up my /boot drive but I feel like I'm in a vicious circle.
What I have tried so far is this:
$ df -h
/dev/xvda1 236M 230M 0 100% /boot
$ ...
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Trying to keep my Linux fresh
Is this effective? Is there any danger?
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
And then
sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get autoclean && sudo apt-get autoremove
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Remove unused fonts
How can I get rid of fonts I'll never use, for locales I'll never need?
Ubuntu's Font Viewer comes with tons of fonts for every locale imaginable - Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, Urdu, a bunch of ...
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Bleachbit for Ubuntu is not detecting installed software and not deleting System cache
BleachBit is not listing all of the software I have installed that needs to be cleaned such as Google Chrome, Firefox, Flash etc.. Also, it is not removing System cache files or .bash_history even ...
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Clean out repository indexes on 16.04
How do i clear out my repo indexes completely, start from scratch etc.
I have a lot of bad or old indexes that I'd like to clean up
W: Failed to fetch http://archive.linux.duke.edu/ubuntu/dists/...
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Error “problem unlinking” in apt-get clean
There's a problem whenever I try to use sudo apt-get clean:
:~$ sudo apt-get clean
W: Problem unlinking the file apt-fast - Clean (21: Is a directory)
:~$ apt-fast clean
W: Problem unlinking the file ...
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Which commands in terminal clean drive space no apt-get clean type commands work. won't download in Software Center nor update! not CCleaner [closed]
Can you give EXACT terminal commands that work WITHOUT regurgitive mere basics that don't work such as Sudo Apt-get clean/autoclean. Is it Wily defect or what? I got Linux to be simple not to become a ...
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How do I clean up the mess after an installation aborts?
I'm sure it's happened to everyone some time....
I was installing something with Ubuntu Software Center, a lot downloaded, but it crapped out half way through the installation with errors to the ...
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How do I make space on /boot?
How do I free up space on /boot?
ls /boot/
abi-4.2.0-16-generic memtest86+.bin
abi-4.2.0-19-generic memtest86+.elf
abi-4.2.0-22-generic memtest86+_multiboot.bin
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Package for tmpwatch
I have a server application which runs on redhat and SuSE. It should run on ubuntu servers, too.
The application uses the executable tmpwatch
There seems to be no package for it in ubuntu.
And I ...
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boot full and cannot clean
I reviewed the "Can't clean a full /boot because of unmet dependencies" and it cleared the boot to about 43% used on boot.
Then I ran sudo apt-get autoremove and it put all of the linux-images back ...
