Re: how do you find installed bloatware to apt purge?
On Wed Mar 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM GMT, Runamile Czyborra wrote:
my df -hl / is at 8.7G/11G=89% after sudo apt update && sudo apt install
python3 pip && sudu pip3 install vosk in my crouton and what do you use
to ergonomically present installed candidates to apt purge a few gigabytes?
I favour "duc" (as opposed to, e.g. ncdu) for exploring the size of the
filesystem. You run it in two passes: an indexing stage, and a browsing
stage. The browsing stage is very fast since it doesn't need to index. I
run the indexing stage periodically via cron or systemd timers.
duc index /
duc ui /
There are several duc browsers: ui is an ncurses-style TUI; there's also
CLI, GUI and web-based ones. The GUI and web-based ones use a nice pie
chart presentation.
For Debian packages specifically, you can use dpigs from the
debian-goodies package. I wrote an alternative for situations where I
don't want to install debian-goodies and its transitive dependencies:
awk -v RS='' '/Status:.*installed\n/' /var/lib/dpkg/status \
| grep -E '^(Installed-Size|Package)' \
| cut -d: -f2- \
| paste - - \
| sort -rnk2 \
| awk '{ print $2 "\t" $1 }' \
| head -n 10
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