Re: how do you find installed bloatware to apt purge?

[Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 10:20:30 +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> 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

That's conceptually similar to the little program that I wrote,
which you can get from <https://wooledge.org/~greg/ds>.  It's in perl.

Sample output:

zoom                               705531
brave-browser                      399770
linux-image-6.1.0-30-amd64         399102
linux-image-6.1.0-31-amd64         399069
google-chrome-stable               365765
firefox-esr                        251227
libllvm15                          124941
ibus-data                          109113
firmware-iwlwifi                    82286
[...]