Since Ubuntu stopped having problems with the installer and updater of its system, users do not usually do a clean installation. This means that in the long run, our Ubuntu will fill with useless files, junk files or temporary files that will affect the performance of our operating system.
To solve this, either we do a clean installation, a long task to do, or we use tools that clean the operating system such as Ubuntu Cleaner.Ubuntu Cleaner is a cleaning tool that it is based on the cleaning functions that the Ubuntu Tweak tool had. This tool is obsolete but its cleaning functions are still good. That is why Gerard Puig decided to extract all these functions and materialize them in a new application. This is Ubuntu Cleaner.
Ubuntu Cleaner will prevent us from having to do a clean installation of Ubuntu every month
Ubuntu Cleaner cleans the entire system, leaving the necessary files and eliminating the residual files that our Ubuntu system has. Sometimes the program will ask for the root password, a request made to clean up system files that are in protected folders. The tool still needs some more customization, that is why between its screens we will find references to Janitor, the old Ubuntu Tweak feature.
Ubuntu Cleaner can be installed on Ubuntu easily though we have to use an external repository to install it. To do this we open a terminal and write the following:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gerardpuig/ppa sudo apt update && sudo apt install ubuntu-cleaner sudo apt-get install python-dbus
After this Ubuntu Cleaner will be installed with all the necessary dependencies. Now we just have to go to our Dash and look for the application to run it and make our Ubuntu clean and improve remarkably. Although for the most classic, surely they will continue to perform clean Ubuntu installations.
I just installed and tested it and it works great ..
Not enough with sudo apt-get clean and with sudo apt-get autoremove? Or is it its equivalent in graphic environment?
I imagine it will be the same, but they have worked on the graphical interface. There are people outside the terminal.
It works fine but the options are limited.
Unlike bleachbit it does not delete bash history, it is not as detailed in what it removes from browsers, nor does it free up disk space.
But if you remove old kernels and associated configuration files that autoclean and autoremove they do not remove.
Your options are almost the same as the ubuntu tweak cleanup module.
I know, but I was wondering if it was equivalent or would it bring some extra stuff.
I do what you
sudo aptclean
sudo apt autoclean
sudo apt autoremove
And I enter Admin mode in Nautilus and empty the tmp folder, the temporary ones downloaded.
I think that it is rather the equivalent of bleachbit, it seems that it brings more or less the same options to eliminate cache unnecessary files etc.
And why not use bleachbit instead? It's in the official repos, it's highly customizable, and it does its job very well
It works but needs work on apps like BleachBit. It has no arguments or options for use with the command line.
To remove the ppa Bleachbit never worked for me, it left me most
The bus python package is missing
Installing Ubuntu Cleaner on Linux MX did not work.
I made the three indications and even made an update but unfortunately it did not install.
regards
Pat