Debian - Free up some disk space
April 2018
Under Debian (for most Linux distributions) you can free up some disk space, simply by deleting the configuration files resulting unistallation of packages.
The commands to be used are:
dpkg --purge $(dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall$ | cut -f 1)
dpkg --purge $(dpkg --get-selections | awk '$2 ~ /de/ { print $1 } ' )
Remove downloaded packages (installation files)
aptitude clean
Removing orphan packages
dpkg --purge $(deborphan)
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