How To Install Ubuntu Cleaner on Ubuntu 20.04 | 22.04 LTS

Hi, this post is about how to install Ubuntu Cleaner on Ubuntu 20.04/22.04

Ubuntu Cleaner is a tool that makes it easy to clean your Ubuntu system. Ubuntu Cleaner can free up disk space and remove private information from your computer:

• Clear browser cache
• Clear APT cache
• Clear thumbnail cache
• Remove unneeded packages
• Remove old kernels
• Remove old installers

Install Ubuntu Cleaner on Ubuntu-APT method

Follow the steps below to get started with Ubuntu Cleaner :

• Update your Ubuntu system packages with running the below command:

sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt install git software-properties-common -y

• Ubuntu Cleaner package is not available on Ubuntu base repository. So You can install it via importing PPA repo as follows:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gerardpuig/ppa

• Run the command below to reflect on PPA

sudo apt update -y

• Then install Ubuntu Cleaner as shown below:

sudo apt install ubuntu-cleaner

Getting Ubuntu Cleaner on Ubuntu-Source code method

• Get the code from GitHub

git clone https://github.com/gerardpuig/ubuntu-cleaner.git

• Run the program from source

./ubuntu-cleaner

• Run the unit tests

make test

• Create a .deb package as follows:

make deb
make clean

Access Ubuntu Cleaner

• You can search on the system search bar by typing Ubuntu Cleaner as follows

• Alternatively, users can launch it using the command below:

ubuntu-cleaner

• Ubuntu Cleaner will be launched as shown below

How to Remove (Uninstall) Ubuntu Cleaner

• Remove Ubuntu Cleaner APT Method

sudo apt autoremove ubuntu-cleaner --purge -y

Conclusion

That’s it

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