Beware Ubuntu 8.10 "Cruft Remover"

Ubuntu 8.10 Cruft Remover

Ubuntu 8.10 Cruft Remover

Updated my Ubuntu to 8.10 this week and have been poking around the new features.

Yesterday I found “Cruft Remover” under the System > Administration menu.  I assumed it was something similar to CCleaner on Windows. CCleaner scans your system and finds UNused items which are safe to remove.   Unfortunately the Cruft Remover tool itself provides no information or help only a “Cleanup” button which I gleefully pressed.

Unfortunately it appears to have deleted several apps I use regularly. Oops.

VirtualBox? Gone.
Air/Twhirl? Gone.

Not sure what else is missing.  But they definately need to improve the usability of this tool.  So if you have upgraded – beware of Cruft Remover!

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7 thoughts on “Beware Ubuntu 8.10 "Cruft Remover"

  1. OK. There’s an easier way around this. It’s by using apt from cli. sudo apt-get autoremove is the command you need to know. The thing is that apt had autoremove for a while. All it does is get rid of orphaned packages. Which are dependencies that are no longer in use because the software that used them has been uninstalled.

    I guess the cruft remove front end sucks ass. sudo apt-get autoremove doesn’t suck.

  2. @rowinggolfer You got that right :) I’m pretty good about running auto-remove which is why I was surprised to see stuff listed. I noticed yesterday my Picasa also got toasted somewhere along the way – had to reinstall.

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