Beware Ubuntu 8.10 “Cruft Remover”
October 31, 2008 by Jim · 7 Comments
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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same here
No much info given about this software
I used it and had to reinstall the whole os. Just an hour or two of installing and had most things setup. ARRGH
You much of updated before the actual release. Cruft Cleaner was removed from the default system just before.
See: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-cleaner/+bug/285746
Interesting – I DID install early…
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.
shamil,
cruft-remover removes packages over and above those removed by apt-get autoremove.
@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.