8.04: deborphan

no, it only shows them. You can run:

sudo apt-get --purge remove `deborphan`

to remove the list of files it finds. If spac is an issue I suggest you remove old unused kernels, this can save ~120Mb per kernel. You can see your current kernel with:

uname -a

You can list your installed kernels with:

dpkg -l | grep linux-image-2

do NOT remove the current kernel but you can remove the other kernels if they are unused.

To gain more space you can use bleachbit as root and your user (watch the browser settings as it can delete passwords etc and avoid the settings which say they will take a long time).

You can also review your installed packages and remove stuff you don't use (vinagre / vino if you don't use VNC, tsclient / rdesktop if you don't use RDP, evolution if you use webmail etc). You can also remove openoffice (300Mb) and install abiword if you only use the word processor in the suite (12mb).

Basically a default install of Ubuntu is VERY bloated but it can easily be trimmed.

Thanks, man.

How can I rermove a kernel? Thanks.
Peter

If you give the output of:

uname -a; dpkg -l | grep linux-image-2

I can advise.

peter@linux-desktop:~# uname -a; dpkg -l | grep linux-image-2
Linux linux-desktop 2.6.24-28-generic #1 SMP Thu May 27 00:16:49 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
ii linux-image-2.6.24-23-generic 2.6.24-23.46 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.24 on x86
ii linux-image-2.6.24-27-generic 2.6.24-27.69 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.24 on x86
ii linux-image-2.6.24-28-generic 2.6.24-28.70 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.24 on x86
peter@linux-desktop:~#

Thanks.

sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-image-2.6.24-27-generic linux-image-2.6.24-23-generic; sudo apt-get --purge autoremove

Should leave you with one kernel.

Thanks, man.