Having installed so many cool packages recently, I am now left with
only 750Mb available in my HD (out of 6Gb)...sad isn't it?
What would be the safest way for me to remove unwanted packages,
i.e gnome and all other space eaters?
Can I go for Kpackage and uninstall w/out the fear of dependency damages?

Well you can do a 'slocate *.tgz' and get rid of any downloaded packages. If you've compiled programs from source you can delete the unpacked source and the zipped files. I use OpenOffice, so I remove gnumeric, abiword and koffice with no problems. I also remove individual packages like quanta that I never use.

I use KDE, but I like some gnome programs, so I keep gnome, even though I don't run it. If you don't use gnome, you should be able to uninstall it.

I use swaret (great program!) and you can just 'swaret --remove gnome -a'and it's done.

Barbara

cool, good idea. and as I understand it, swaret takes care of dependencies right?

Well, when you're uninstalling, dependencies aren't so important. It removes the package, as it was installed. I don't believe it will remove something important. Sorry I can't give you a more definitive answer.

Barbara

You should also run:

make clean

or

make mrproper

In all of the directories under /usr/src (if this is where you compiled your software, anyway).

You can also delete things in /tmp and anything in /var/log (leave the directories), though make sure you aren't having any problems with your machine before deleting the logs, you might destroy vital clues about your system.

You can also delete:

/usr/share/locale
/usr/share/zoneinfo

But that is only going to remove 20-30MB.

And go ahead and remove any packages you don't use. If you did a full install when you setup the machine, you are sure to have software you are never going to use.

If you clean your /var/log directory, don't forgot that the packages and removes-packages sub-directories are *quite* useful for the packages tools to know which one is installed or not...
I think cleaning your /usr/src (or wherever you decompressed the tarballs packaged programs) should be a good way to get more available disk space since mine is 1.6GO after only 2 months of use and not so much packages decompressed here.

ignore

pkgtool is THE tool to remove packages.