Comments on: Beware Ubuntu 8.10 “Cruft Remover”

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:54:12 +0000

@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.

By: rowinggolfer

rowinggolfer — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:31:30 +0000

shamil,

cruft-remover removes packages over and above those removed by apt-get autoremove.

By: shamil

shamil — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:47:28 +0000

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.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:19:25 +0000

Interesting – I DID install early…

By: blank

blank — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:09:10 +0000

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

By: AntiCruft

AntiCruft — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:02:49 +0000

I used it and had to reinstall the whole os. Just an hour or two of installing and had most things setup. ARRGH

By: arya

arya — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:33:42 +0000

same here

No much info given about this software