How to Quickly Clean Up Old Package Files in Ubuntu

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When installing and uninstalling applications from Linux on a regular basis, old package files can be left on your machine. This is how to remove these packages. Ubuntu is the featured OS.

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  • I do sudo apt-get --purge autoremove. I also install localepurge to remove language packs I don't need.

  • "87 packages to remove, 136 MiB of disk space will be freed". Nice.

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