![]() ![]() This is one of the best way to clean up those and get some free space on your system. There might a be chance, that you may have a large amount of useless data residing in your trash.It takes up your system space. Mariadb-common* mariadb-server-10.1* mariadb-server-core-10.1* mysql-common* sntp* Libopts25* libterm-readkey-perl* mariadb-client-10.1* mariadb-client-core-10.1* Libdbd-mysql-perl* libdbi-perl* libjemalloc1* liblua5.2-0* libmysqlclient20* Libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3* libaprutil1-ldap* libconfig-inifiles-perl* $ sudo apt-get autoremove -purgeĪpache2-bin* apache2-data* apache2-utils* galera-3* libaio1* libapr1* libaprutil1* To purge them, use the -purge option together with the command for that. Mariadb-server-10.1 mariadb-server-core-10.1 mysql-common sntp socatĠ upgraded, 0 newly installed, 25 to remove and 23 not upgraded.Īfter this operation, 189 MB disk space will be freed. Libterm-readkey-perl mariadb-client-10.1 mariadb-client-core-10.1 mariadb-common Libdbi-perl libjemalloc1 liblua5.2-0 libmysqlclient20 libopts25 Libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap libconfig-inifiles-perl libdbd-mysql-perl $ sudo apt-get autoremoveĪpache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils galera-3 libaio1 libapr1 libaprutil1 It removes orphaned packages which are not longer needed from the system, but not purges them. These packages were installed automatically to satisfy the dependencies of an installed package.Īlso, it removes old Linux kernels that were installed in the system. The following command removes the dependency libs and packages that are no longer required by the system. GUI users can use “Disk Usage Analyzer tool” to view current usage.ġ) Remove the unwanted packages that are no longer required $ df -hįilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on Use df Command to check current disk utilization on your system. How to check Free Space on Ubuntu systems? In this article, I’ll show you some of the easiest or simple ways to clean up your Ubuntu system and get more space. There is no need to clean up your system when you have enough storage capacity.īut if your have limited space then freeing up disk space becomes a necessity. There are several ways to clean up our system space. Housekeeping is one of the routine task of Linux administrator, which allows them to maintain the disk utilization which is under threshold. It should be performed frequently, to make space for installing any new application and dealing with other important files. This steps is safe to abandon, but if you wish some Mint-related components that were removed above, you are free to install them back.Most of us will free up the disk space whenever we face out of disk space on Linux system. Try to logout and check whether XFCE session doesn't exist anymore from session choice menu. This command should show nothing if it's true that all XFCE components were successfully removed. -yes makes apt-get automatically answers yes for everythingįor troubleshooting purpose, you can add one more pipeline command at the end | tee -append removal.txt to record the whole removal process in a plain text named removal.txt.-auto-remove tries to remove dependency packages too.sudo apt-get purge removes listed packages from input.xargs changes multiple line input from previous command to be single line input for next command.filters so that only packages with keyword xfce within their names listed | xargs sudo apt-get purge -auto-remove -yes This way you do not need to remove every one of those 50+ package names one by one. This command line will list all packages with xfce in their names, take only the package names, and feed those package names in to a special apt-get purge command line. If you wish something other than Openbox, see the KDE + GNOME tutorial. If you don't do this, your Mint system will works only with CLI (e.g. This is so you will have at least a working GUI after removal of the XFCE GUI. You are free to perform just the removal if you wish. This tutorial will not and is not supposed to remove Xorg (Mint's display server), Lightdm (Mint's login screen), and APT (Mint's package manager). The plan is first to have an alternative GUI, in this case the small lightweight Openbox WM, and performing the complete removal, and finally installing back some Mint system-related programs. Subscribe to UbuntuBuzz Telegram Channel to get article updates directly. This tutorial is intended for users who want to remove the desktop environment and ready for the risk. The XFCE components (no less than 50) are all gone, including Thunar File Manager and XFCE4 Session, resulting in a feeling like removing just one application. Thanks to him, I searched, and I did a removal that works on that Mint which already have additional KDE and GNOME installed. A friend from a community gave me an idea after last article to remove XFCE from Mint XFCE "Tessa". ![]()
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