Disk full -- any suggestions on what to move to SD card?

[Giles Orr]

Another, somewhat simpler version that produces very similar results:

   alias dpkgs="dpkg-query -W --showformat='\${Installed-Size}
\${Package}\n' | sort -n"

I've used this for years.  The dubious winners (since I don't use OO):

36008 gnome-user-guide
37144 libgl1-mesa-dri
40796 gnome-applets-data
43448 sbcl
49344 libgcj9-0
68952 ia32-libs
70608 sun-java6-bin
71552 linux-image-2.6.22-3-amd64
75552 linux-image-2.6.24-1-amd64
91180 evolution-common

I don't even use evolution - but I can't remove it because apt will
purge the entire of GNOME (which I do occasionally use bits of) if I
remove evolution ... or even the gnome-user-guide.  I love apt, but
sometimes people implement some pretty silly dependencies.

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 01:04:14PM -0400, Alex Maynard wrote:
>> Jamon, Thanks for the good suggestion. Any particularly large software
>> packages that I could safely remove.  I mainly use just emacs, latex,
>> open-office, firefox, acroread.  I'm removing gimp, xsane, evolution.
>> Are there any other large applications that I could remove to pair down on
>> space?
>
> Well removing open-office would probably free 500MB or so. :)
>
> vim if it is installed might be another 20 to 30MB.
>
> Basicaly open-office, emacs and latex are probably among the largest
> most bloated things you can have installed, so if you really think those
> are all useful there probably isn't much hope fitting it on that small a
> disk.
>
> Try this though:
> for pkg in `dpkg -l|grep ^ii|awk '{print $2}'`; do echo -n "$pkg "; apt-cache show $pkg|grep 'Installed-Size:'|head -n 1|awk '{print $2'}; done | sed -e 's/\(.*\) \(.*\)/\2 \1/'|sort -n
>
> That will list all the installed packages (those matching ^ii in dpkg
> -l) and print the installed size of each one (in 512byte blocks) sorted
> so largest goes last.
>
> For example when I run it on one machine here I get this at the end:
> 58604 cm-super
> 63240 gcc-4.1-powerpc
> 63512 acroread
> 66044 linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64
> 66048 linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64
> 66692 mysql-server-5.0
> 87312 sun-j2re1.5
> 99844 openoffice.org-core
> 100952 texlive-latex-extra
> 138596 texlive-fonts-extra
> 282216 classpath-doc
>
> I guess classpath-doc really ought to go given I have no idea why I
> would need that.  The texlive extras might be redundant too.
>
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