Hello everybody!

I'm just wondering... Linux has the one disadvantage that, as you use it, it tends to organically grow larger and larger. To the point where the only options are either a fresh install, or a few nights of searching for stuff to remove that doesn't break too many other packages that you still need.

So my question is: Is there something like:
a) A treemap view for packages, to see which ones are most worth removing, because they would free up the most space on the drive
b) A graph view for packages, to see which branches can be cut off without affecting too many others?

Thanks a lot in advance,
-Wojtek Dabrowski

Update: Sorry, this information is for rpm based distributions only. I don't know how to accomplish the same for deb/apt based systems.

You can easily see the largest rpm files on your system with (for example):

If you want a graph view of package relationships, you can use the rpmgraph tool, though it's not particularly useful. Just do a 'yum remove' to see the list of packages that will need to be removed to remove a given package or group of packages.

Thanks for the answer!

Problem is (sorry I didn't mention that in my original post) I'm running Ubuntu... So does anybody know the debian way of doing this?

Thanks a lot in advance,
-Wojtek Dabrowski

For debian:

Create file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/dot containing:
(this is for restricting the graph to only what you select, otherwise it will display all installed packages=> machine crash expected..)

Install graphviz (this is for converting a tree text file representation to an image)
Install imagemagick (this is for displaying a postcript file)

You get this

For disc space, you can play with:
debfoster
localepurge

Thanks a lot everybody, I'll try those things asap!

Greets,
-Wojtek