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Please can you tell me how to see what I have installed on my computer, so that I can make a judgement call to remove some of the unnecessary programs. I tried the following code dpkg -l | grep ii however the number of installed programs just whizzes through the screen so fast. Is there any way of halting it, or scrolling through the list. Each up and down arrow I press simply shows me my previous commands.

Then I would like some recommendations of what to remove.

Thanks in advance. Vince.

Vincent Gledhill
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  • See https://askubuntu.com/questions/5980/how-do-i-free-up-disk-space for useful information. Because of so many shared libraried (=package dependencies) deleting a single application urually will free very little space, and removing a seeminly unimportant package can result in unwanted wiping of most of Ubuntu. – Takkat Sep 20 '17 at 12:00
  • Where on your disk are you out of space ? Please update your question with the output of df -h – Soren A Sep 20 '17 at 12:27
  • FWIW it is typically easier to do a minimal install and build up rather than remove packages. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD . If you do remove packages use the --purge option. – Panther Sep 20 '17 at 12:55

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You could use less.

dpkg -l | grep ii | less

to halt the scrolling.

Bruni
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If you prefer, you can use Synaptic to view what programs you have installed.

If it's not present, you can install it by sudo apt install synaptic.

Go to Settings > Filter. At Search Filter option, Deselect All and choose "Installed" and "Residual config". enter image description here

So you can choose what you want to Mark for Complete Removal.

Redbob
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