Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, BleachBit is an open-source, cleanup program that gets rid of the temporary files on your computer, reduces the number on unnecesary files, in order to increase the free space and the system performance. BleachBit is the Linux equivalent of the CCleaner, that runs on Windows.
The latest version available is BleachBit 1.4, which has been released a while ago, coming with the below changes and fixes:
Multi-platform changes:
- Firefox: Fix DatabaseError: no such table: moz_hosts
- Firefox: Purge the table moz_hosts in places.sqlite for the option url_history
- Firefox: Delete Necko Predictive Network Actions
- Firefox: Delete more session restore files
- Google Chrome: fix error cleaning autofill_dates
- Adobe Reader: use wildcards instead of specific versions
- Clean netMRL history in VLC media player
- Clean GIMP version 2.8
- Improve support for Liferea
Linux and Unix specific changes:
- Pass control of the ~/.cache/mozilla directory from the System – Cache cleaner to the Firefox – Cache cleaner
- Clean additional locale directories
- Clean .mask files in Easytag
- Clean more history in the Links web browser
- Add packages for CentOS 7 and RHEL 7
In this article I will show you how to install BleachBit 1.4 on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0 and other Ubuntu 14.04 derivative systems.
Because it is available via PPA, installing BleachBit 1.4 on Ubuntu 14.04 and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the bleachbit package. Like this:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/programs-ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install bleachbit
Optional, to remove bleachbit, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove bleachbit