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How to install Ubuntu Cleaner in Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 Desktop

Posted on 21 August 2022 11:27 am

How to install Ubuntu Cleaner in Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 Desktop

Open your terminal in Ubuntu 18.04 or 20.04 Desktop and enter the commands :

$ sudo apt install software-properties-common

Desktop@FreeAd.win: ~ $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gerardpuig/ppa

Official Ubuntu Cleaner stable repository

More info: https://launchpad.net/~gerardpuig/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel adding it.

 

Hit:1 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease

Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gerardpuig/ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease [15.9 kB]

Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease                     

Hit:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease              

Hit:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease             

Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/maarten-fonville/android-studio/ubuntu bionic InRelease

Hit:7 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease           

Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gerardpuig/ppa/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages [520 B]

Get:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gerardpuig/ppa/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages [520 B]

Get:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gerardpuig/ppa/ubuntu bionic/main Translation-en [188 B]

Fetched 17.1 kB in 2s (9,367 B/s)                     

Reading package lists... Done

$ sudo apt update

Wait a few seconds or minute to update this

$ sudo apt install ubuntu-cleaner

Desktop@FreeAd.win:~$ sudo apt install ubuntu-cleaner

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

The following additional packages will be installed:

  libpython-stdlib python python-apt python-aptdaemon

  python-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets python-bs4 python-chardet python-dbus

  python-debian python-defer python-gi python-html5lib python-lxml

  python-minimal python-pkg-resources python-six python-webencodings python2.7

  python2.7-minimal

Suggested packages:

  python-doc python-tk python-apt-dbg python-apt-doc python-dbus-dbg

  python-dbus-doc python-gi-cairo python-genshi python-lxml-dbg

  python-lxml-doc python-setuptools python2.7-doc binfmt-support

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  libpython-stdlib python python-apt python-aptdaemon

  python-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets python-bs4 python-chardet python-dbus

  python-debian python-defer python-gi python-html5lib python-lxml

  python-minimal python-pkg-resources python-six python-webencodings python2.7

  python2.7-minimal ubuntu-cleaner

0 upgraded, 20 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Need to get 3,657 kB of archives.

After this operation, 15.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Press y and enter to continue...

Install will completed in seconds or minute or minutes.
(Its depending on your pc and server internet speed, at the time of installation).

You can check ubuntu cleaner is installed or not in your ubuntu Desktop :

$ whereis ubuntu-cleaner

press on "Enter" to check this 

Desktop@FreeAd.win:~$ whereis ubuntu-cleaner

ubuntu-cleaner: /usr/bin/ubuntu-cleaner /usr/share/ubuntu-cleaner

Launch the "Ubuntu-Cleaner"

Open your ubuntu short cut panel and search the "cleaner" and click on Ubuntu Cleaner.

that's it...