I want to get a trusted file cleaning tool to remove unwanted files.
When I try to add the Ubuntu Tweak repository it says it is from an untrusted repository.
So, are there any trusted file cleaning tools available for Ubuntu?
These are some that could be what you need...
FSLint: Utility collection to find and fix common errors in file storage. It can find things like:
To install, open a terminal Ctrl + Alt + T and enter command:
sudo apt-get install fslint
BleachBit: 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.
To install, open a terminal Ctrl + Alt + T and enter command:
sudo apt-get install bleachbit
To install, open a terminal Ctrl + Alt + T and enter command:
sudo apt-get install gtkorphan
fdupes: Identifies duplicate files within given directories. (FSLint too gives this option to delete duplicate files from the system.)
P.S. The above recommended applications (except fdupes) are in Universe section of Ubuntu's repository. So before starting to install these, you'll have to Enable the “Universe” repository, then update the repos with sudo apt-get update and then you can install programs in Universe repo using apt-get.
