How To Install bleachbit on Debian 10
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.