Saving Disk Space In Linux Mint Using Localepurge

Here’s how to save disk space in Linux Mint / Ubuntu using localepurge, which will remove unnecessary locale files that are not required by the user: 1. Issue the following command at the terminal – sudo apt-get install localepurge 2. Now, select the locale files that you want to be retained. These will be locale files for the language that you are using. We use US English, hence we selected...

Saving Disk Space In Linux Mint Using Deborphan

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...