This is how to automatically remove unneeded packages on your Linux Mint system.
jason@jason-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove [sudo] password for jason: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: libglib2.0-0:i386 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0:i386 libgstreamer0.10-0 libgstreamer0.10-0:i386 liborc-0.4-0:i386 libpgm-5.1-0 libpoppler57 libpth20 libsndio6.0 libzmq3 qtdeclarative5-qtfeedback-plugin qtdeclarative5-ubuntu-web-plugin 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 13 to remove and 17 not to upgrade. After this operation, 18.6 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] |
The apt-get check command checks the Linux system for any broken packages.
jason@jason-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get check Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done |
This is how to download a package without installing it into your system.
homer@deusexmachina ~/Desktop/apt $ sudo apt-get download vile Get:1 Downloading vile 9.8k-1 [440 kB] Fetched 440 kB in 3s (115 kB/s) |
Use the apt-cache command to get some information about your installed packages.
homer@deusexmachina ~/Desktop/apt $ sudo apt-cache stats Total package names: 56492 (1,130 k) Total package structures: 96073 (5,380 k) Normal packages: 65839 Pure virtual packages: 1197 Single virtual packages: 8080 Mixed virtual packages: 1896 Missing: 19061 Total distinct versions: 72289 (5,205 k) Total distinct descriptions: 120110 (2,883 k) Total dependencies: 559892 (15.7 M) Total ver/file relations: 76875 (1,845 k) Total Desc/File relations: 120110 (2,883 k) Total Provides mappings: 15987 (320 k) Total globbed strings: 354 (3,658 ) Total dependency version space: 2,703 k Total slack space: 27.4 k Total space accounted for: 28.5 M |
Remove uneeded deb packages from your system using this command.
homer@deusexmachina ~/Desktop/apt $ sudo apt-get clean |
This will free up disk space.
The following command updates your local copy of the packages repository lists.
sudo apt-get update |
The following command updates all installed packages that are needing upgrades.
sudo apt-get upgrade |