Removing leftovers

jppelt

WetGeek I had the same issue, trying to get rid of all the vestigial browser remnants. I ended up using nautilus as root and uprooting all the hidden files. Can't remember where, but there is one of those OMGUbuntu type pages that tell you where all the files that need eradicating lie hiding. Happy hunting!

PS: I tried to stay on FireFox to help with engine diversity but the force is too strong with Vivaldi.

WetGeek

jppelt I tried to stay on FireFox to help with engine diversity but the force is too strong with Vivaldi.

😄

WetGeek

kyrios eopkg will never do anything in your home directory.

Yeah, I should have thought of that. Thanks.

The worst part of the problem is when eopkg insists on reinstalling Opera on my computers, even though I keep uninstalling it. 🙄 Since it doesn't know about these caches in my home directory, I can't understand it.

DataDrake

WetGeek The worst part of the problem is when eopkg insists on reinstalling Opera on my computers, even though I keep uninstalling it.

Huh? eopkg doesn't have anything like that.

kyrios

basically all you have to do is to look at the hidden folders in your home directory
mainly .cache .config and .local

WetGeek

DataDrake eopkg doesn't have anything like that

So sorry ... I just saw it get updated on our multimedia machine, and I momentarily forgot that that's the ONE computer here that actually does have Opera installed. It's the only browser that tv.youtube.com will query for geolocation data to figure out which local stations to stream for us. I see it there every time I do updates, like this morning. I knew I'd removed it from all our other computers.

Thanks!

Infamous711

What I mainly do to cleanup my home directory is to use a cli-application called fd. I just type fd -H <name-of-application>. It just finds out the files with the names that contains the application name. I only delete files from .cache, .config and .local if needed.

elfprince

Infamous711 Neat. I just installed it. 😀 Thanks!

brent

Infamous711 It just finds out the files with the names that contains the application

I am using this right now as well. Stupid question: what are the chances files/debris from removed apps left files that don't have the name of the app on it? Slim to none since trashing all Epiphany (for example) config/local/cache folders would prevent that from happening?

Axios

https://snapcraft.io/czkawka

Infamous711

Axios

Or even better: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.qarmin.czkawka

Infamous711

brent what are the chances files/debris from removed apps left files that don't have the name of the app on it?

I have not encountered that type of situation yet. But for most parts fd just works. If still unsure you can just use ls and figure out if there is anything left behind or not (which is not needed for most of the times).

brent

Infamous711 Didnt think so/thanks for responding. a part of me was being meticulous about the manual file cleanup that's I asked.
***I had not realized until I looked in .config/.temp/.local/.cache how many things I tried and removed that left a trail of files.
edit: also owe @WetGeek a thanks for keeping the housecleaning bug on my to do list. not a big fan of strands and debris from apps gotten rid of

MattX

I have to do some manual cleaning from time to time to delete some leftover configs, snap files etc. but I'm still scared to delete so called orphaned packages or use BleachBit to wipe off some weird stuff I don't know nothing about. It would be nice to have some trusted tool for that that 'knows' what is going on inside a specific distro. When I try to be a uber-poweruser there's a 50% chance the OS will be bricked. The only stuff I did when I used Debian/Ubuntu based distros was sudo apt autoremove and I felt like a god. 🤣

The last time I deleted the .dotfiles and other configs from my /home directory before fresh install of Solus it showed me there were like 100000 of files... I know that .steam folder can be heavy with al those proton versions and 'redistributables', 'runtimes' but what the hell?