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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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Cleaning up my Home Directory

I have the following problem, I've installed a bunch of Ubuntu packages ever since I used Ubuntu, now I've removed these packages using the Synaptic Package Manager but somehow it still left hidden folders in my home directory for the specific…
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Cleaning Ubuntu temporary files if they exist

I need to do a lot of cleaning in my Virtual Machine whose Operating System is Ubuntu. Normally in Windows, there is this kind of directory that contain temporary files and that should be cleaned : C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local…
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Possible values for Autocleaninterval for APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "0";

I want to set up autoclean on Ubuntu 14.04. I found out that we can adjust the Autocleaninterval from "0" to "7" to do a weekly cleaning. I wanted to confirm how I can adjust it to make it a monthly cleaning or daily should it be "30" or "1".
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How to clear search history in glogg?

I am using glogg to scan log files, but since the installation all the searches are saved somewhere and it is getting huge and huge. Using Bleachbit to clean the system isn't helpful for glogg until now and everytime I make a log search the history…
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How can I clean residual config files with BleachBit app?

I want to clean residual config files with BleachBit like Synaptic Package Manager can do this. Can I achieve it somehow? There's a custom setting in BleachBit which allows to configure a specific path for cleaning, so where or can I point it to…
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System cleanup (Lubuntu 16.04)

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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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 By the way I run my Linux in VMWare Should I also run Ubuntu Tweak? Thanks
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Deleting Crap necessary?

In Windows there were many crap files that inflated the system (like temp, browser temp, update fragments, old update files and so on). So in Windows there were tools like CCleaner really needed. What about Ubuntu? Are there such tools also…
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Ubuntu get stuck at "/dev/sda6: clean" message with some number on bootup. Help!

I executed sudo apt autoremove in cmd and restarted the pc. After that it gets stuck at this message /dev/sda6: clean, 509610/4071424" files, 7994479/16284672 blocks
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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 the problem I need to "remove /EFI/Ubuntu from my ESP…
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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 commands: sudo apt-get purge linux-image-2.6.24-24…
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How to clean up/clean out /dev/sda7 when permission is denied?

d@d-Satellite-C655:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda7 38G 36G 278M 100% / none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup udev 931M 4.0K 931M 1% /dev tmpfs 189M 1.1M…
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Clean-up options for Ubuntu (13.10)

I am looking for good tools that can be used to get rid of useless clutter of the system. Note that I'm not talking about deleting useless things, that I can manually do. I am looking for tools like defragmenters, disk cleaners, those tools that…
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Electricity went out while installing software

Just installed 14.04 so I gave the software centre about 5 programs to install and I left it and went away. Then the electricity went out. What is the correct thing to do now? Most importantly I want to clean up (remove) the "parts of softwares"…
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cleaning up /dev/sda3

I keep getting message 'Low diskspace on Filesystem root' and it mentions '/dev/sda3'. So I do 'df -h', which tells: How do I clean up sda3 to make more space available?
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