Ubuntu Cleaner is a useful graphical user interface tool for the Ubuntu Operating system that makes it easy to clean your system. Ubuntu Cleaner does free up hard disk space and enhances the performance of your system.
Ubuntu cleaner helps you to remove the:-
- Clear browser cache
- Clear APT cache
- Clear thumbnail cache
- Remove unneeded packages
- Remove old kernels
- Remove old installers
In this article, we know about the installation process of Ubuntu cleaner on the Ubuntu operating system.
Installation Ubuntu cleaner
Open the terminal (ctrl+shift+t) and apply the following command
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
Install Software Properties
sudo apt install software-properties-common
Add PPA for Ubuntu cleaner package
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gerardpuig/ppa
Refresh/Update the System
sudo apt-get update
Install Ubuntu Cleaner
sudo apt install ubuntu-cleaner
Launch Ubuntu Cleaner from Application Menu. You can see the various sections e.g. App section, personal section, and system section left side of the Ubuntu cleaner screen. Select the desired section which you want to remove and click on the Clean button.
Although the above-mentioned commands are supported for all the latest versions of Ubuntu. If the above commands don't support your Ubuntu operating system then you can follow the below process in order to install Ubuntu Cleaner via .DEB file.
Download the latest .deb file for Ubuntu Cleaner
wget https://launchpad.net/~gerardpuig/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+files/ubuntu-cleaner_1.0.4-1_all.deb
Install Ubuntu Cleaner
sudo apt install ./ubuntu-cleaner_1.0.4-1_all.deb
Remove the .Deb file as it is not required more
rm ubuntu-cleaner_1.0.4-1_all.deb
Launch Ubuntu cleaner from Application Menu
References:- https://github.com/gerardpuig/ubuntu-cleaner
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