How To Install bleachbit on Debian 10

Learn how to install bleachbit on Debian 10 with this tutorial. bleachbit is delete unnecessary files from the system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bleachbit on Debian 10.

What is bleachbit

bleachbit is:

BleachBit deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space, maintain privacy, and remove junk. It removes cache, Internet history, temporary files, cookies, and broken shortcuts.

It handles cleaning of Adobe Reader, Bash, Beagle, Epiphany, Firefox, Flash, GIMP, Google Earth, Java, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Opera, RealPlayer, rpmbuild, Second Life Viewer, VIM, XChat, and more.

Beyond simply erasing junk files, BleachBit wipes free disk space (to hide previously deleted files for privacy and to improve compression of images), vacuums Firefox databases (to improve performance without deleting data), and securely shreds arbitrary files.

There are three methods to install bleachbit on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install bleachbit Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install bleachbit using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install bleachbit

Install bleachbit Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install bleachbit using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install bleachbit

Install bleachbit Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install bleachbit using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bleachbit

How To Uninstall bleachbit on Debian 10

To uninstall only the bleachbit package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove bleachbit

Uninstall bleachbit And Its Dependencies

To uninstall bleachbit and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bleachbit

Remove bleachbit Configurations and Data

To remove bleachbit configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bleachbit

Remove bleachbit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove bleachbit configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bleachbit

Dependencies

bleachbit have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bleachbit package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.