topic title: [SOLVED] Distro Cleaning
Posts: 125
poorguy
Joined: 11 May 2016
#1
Hello Everyone,

Is cleaning antix necessary and if it is what is the safest way to do so.

I have seen these.

sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove

When removing installed meta-packages or installed packages what is the safest way.

I have seen these.

sudo apt-get remove"installed package"
sudo apt-get purge"installed package"

So many questions and I know I'm a"BIG PIA" .

Thanks

The PoorGuy
Last edited by poorguy on 12 Oct 2016, 00:06, edited 1 time in total.
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#2
I have a text file in my Documents folder with this stuff Anti posted on the AntiX site ages ago

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##clean root with apt command

deborphan | xargs apt-get -y remove

COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l |grep ^rc |awk '{print $2} ' | xargs dpkg -P
from


========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://antix.mepis.org/index.php?title=Further_Lighten_antiX_Debianise_me"
linktext was:"http://antix.mepis.org/index.php?title= ... bianise_me"
====================================
!

Edit. My AntiX 15 has bleachbit in it. Since I do regular apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade.
I'll be damned if I touch it though.
Seems to Windows-eeeeeee for me. __{{emoticon}}__
Posts: 125
poorguy
Joined: 11 May 2016
#3
Hey rokytnji,

Thanks for the info link.
Just trying to learn the how to the right way.

I have played with bleachbit on a test computer without any problems but I can sure see where an uninformed inexperienced user could destroy a Linux Distro without proper understanding of the cleaning features in bleachbit.

Not a fan of registry cleaners although I believe bleachbit is a good tool if understanding the how to of using it.

Thanks

The PoorGuy