Ubuntu Cleaner

Introduction

Ubuntu Cleaner is a tool that makes it easy to clean your Ubuntu system. Ubuntu Cleaner can free up disk space and remove private information from your computer.

• Clear browser cache
• Clear APT cache
• Clear thumbnail cache
• Remove unneeded packages
• Remove old kernels
• Remove old installers

Installation

Installation via PPA:

$ sudo apt install software-properties-common
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gerardpuig/ppa
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install ubuntu-cleaner

Installation via .DEB (for unsupported Ubuntu versions only):

$ wget https://launchpad.net/~gerardpuig/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+files/ubuntu-cleaner_1.0.4-1_all.deb
$ sudo apt install ./ubuntu-cleaner_1.0.4-1_all.deb
$ rm ubuntu-cleaner_1.0.4-1_all.deb

Development

$ git clone https://github.com/gerardpuig/ubuntu-cleaner.git

To run the program from source:

$ ./ubuntu-cleaner

To run the unit tests:

$ make test

To create a .deb package:

$ make deb
$ make clean

Related websites

• Blog http://ubuntu-cleaner.blogspot.com.
• Launchpad https://launchpad.net/~gerardpuig/+archive/ubuntu/ppa.