Saving Disk Space In Linux Mint Using Deborphan

April 18, 2011

Here’s how to use deborphan to remove orphaned packages and save disk space in Linux Mint / Ubuntu:

1. Issue the following command at the terminal –

sudo apt-get install deborphan

2. After the installation is complete, issue the following command at the terminal to find orphan packages in the system –

deborphan

3. To remove the orphan packages and free up disk space, issue the following command at the terminal –

sudo apt-get remove <orphan package name 1> <orphan package name 2> <orphan package name 3>…<orphan package name n>

Orphan package names will be names shown in the orphan package list from step 2.

2 Comments

admin

Yup that works well too Jesse. Glad you found the tutorial useful.
May 3, 2011
Jesse

Hey, very nice mini-tut here. Instead of manually typing each package though, you could issue the command:

apt-get remove `deborphan`

I personally prefer using aptitude and the purge command

aptitude purge `deborphan`

that would give ya the same results
May 3, 2011