I'm trying to figure out a way to clear up some space on my machine. I tried to keep a pretty minimal system. I upgraded from Woody to Sid and installed KDE, but those are the only major installs that I remember doing.

However, my disk usage is at 100%:

icarus@icarus:~$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6 1494204 1416780 1520 100% /

Every time I run dselect to try and remove a few things it either errors with dependency problems or it ends up trying to install more than it removes. Perhaps dselect is the old setup from woody I don't know, and don't really want to mess with it.


Are there any useless programs that are not related to programming that I could remove on my PC that debian installs? I only used one cd to install debian, so 1.4 gigs of hard drive space should be plenty. I want to at least be able to install X-chat and a few more things, so this is quite burdensome.

Also, is there a way to view the group organization in debian? You can view groups in redhat by typing:

rpm -qa --queryformat '%{GROUP}\n' | sort | uniq

and it shows the major package categories, along with sub-group categories. I was wondering if dpkg also provided for hierarchical listings of software.

1. you need 2 gigs minimum.

2.Uninstall KDE, use XFCE4 or Fluxbox

3. Install deborphan, localepurge and debfoster. In deborphan, execute deborphan, it will give you a list of orphaned libraries. To get rid of them:

#deborphan | xargs apt-get -y remove --purge

4. Go to www.debian.org>Documentation>Manuals>APT-HOWTO

Stay there for a week, do not surface before that.

For groups and categories:

debian.org>Packages>Version>categories OR:

#apt-cache search <category or package name>

Do a
du -sh /var/cache/apt/archives/
This is where apt stores .deb files which it downloads to install

apt-get clean
will remove the downloaded .deb files.

When I started I was using less than 60% disc space, this is because debian gives you the option of installing a very minimal system.

When I messed around with dselect is when I had this problem.


Good idea. I'm probably gonna try that.

Deborphan is too big a package.


That shows you the packages availabe for installation. I want a command that lists the packages i have install, i guess dselect is the only way but I don't like that program because when i try and remove something it wants to do a whole lot of other stuff.

That cleared up a lot of space I know have about 70 gigs free.

Deborphan is too big a package.
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If you uninstall KDE, you got an extra 100 MB free, with localepurge debfoster, and deborphan you will save another 50-70 MB, capisci?
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*That shows you the packages availabe for installation. I want a command that lists the packages i have install,
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From Google:

dpkg -l |grep ii

apt-get install aptitude

dselect has always sucked

Yes, gotcha. I installed deborphan and I think it is a good program and it definitely helped me clear up a lot of space.

I couldn't find a command like that myself, but that certainly does it. Thanks!

Yeah aptitude is way better. Thanks.