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2008-10-26 , 16:38
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This is just a simple script to recover diskspace wasted for unneeded locale files and localized man pages. It will automagically be invoked upon completion of any apt installation run.

localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 22897K
Fixed localepurge to work for maemo thanks to sparr and timeless.

Install pcregrep from http://repository.maemo.org/pool/mae.../free/p/pcre3/ and colour-ls from http://www.nitapps.com/dists/chinook....0-1_armel.deb

After that, install the attached deb.

If you use a language on your device that is not english, it is IMPORTANT that you edit /etc/locale.nopurge and add your locale code there before running localepurge or using apt-get.

After that, run "localepurge && docpurge" in a terminal and watch the diskspace come back .
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2008-10-26 , 17:02
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Here's deborphan too.

deborphan finds "orphaned" packages on your system. It determines which packages have no other packages depending on their installation and shows you a list of these packages. It is most useful when finding libraries, but it can be used on packages in all sections.
& Cruft


cruft is a program to look over your system for anything that shouldn't be there, but is; or for anything that should be there, but isn't.

It bases most of its results on dpkg's database, as well as a list of `extra files' that can appear during the lifetime of various packages.

cruft is still in pre-release; your assistance in improving its accuracy and performance is appreciated.
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2008-10-26 , 21:07
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"Incompatible application package" for all. Any suggestions?
/edit - running 4.2008.30-2 and a lot of apps.
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It's because the section isn't user/* so the application manager throws that message. open up a xterm and become root and use dpkg -i <deb> to install

Btw, cruft doesn't work properly with busybox find and rm...
 
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2008-10-27 , 00:48
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Originally Posted by qwerty12 View Post
This is just a simple script to recover diskspace wasted for unneeded locale files and localized man pages.
Looks like it took some of the hildon related locales or l10ns, so I advise anyone to take a backup first.
 
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2008-10-27 , 03:13
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That's odd :/. I've still got my hildon-* & osso-* files in /usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/. Any specific program not displaying the localised strings? Either way, sorry about what happened.
 
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2008-10-27 , 03:44
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qwerty12,

Thanks, looks like it was my bad. Just re-ran and it didn't touch my /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES. Probably misconfigured locale.nopurge.

Question though; I've seen some localepurge that take command line options, such as this Gentoo version.

Code:
localepurge -h
localepurge for Gentoo Linux [ 0.5.3.2 ]
  by bass@gentoo.org

 * Remember that you must edit /etc/locale.nopurge

 * Usage: localepurge [options]

 * -debug (-d)      : debug mode.
 * -help (-h)     : show this help.
 * -list (-l)     : list directories to be cleared
 * -nocolor (-nc)   : no color mode.
 * -pretend (-p)    : pretend mode.
 * -verbose (-v)          : verbose mode.
 * -version       : show version.
Is this deb based on a particular distribution's version or the pure script? I'm too lazy to look in the deb file .

Thanks again.
Pete
 
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Originally Posted by peteblack View Post
qwerty12,

Thanks, looks like it was my bad. Just re-ran and it didn't touch my /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES. Probably misconfigured locale.nopurge.

Question though; I've seen some localepurge that take command line options, such as this Gentoo version.

Is this deb based on a particular distribution's version or the pure script? I'm too lazy to look in the deb file .

Thanks again.
Pete
Yeah, this is based of an (old?) Debian specific localepurge. I'd have offered to update it to a newer one from debian repo's but it seems like running "localepurge -h" on my Ubuntu desktop does nothing.

Regards,
Faheem
 

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2008-11-25 , 15:18
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localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 14799K

Thats 14+ MB. Thank you!
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2008-11-27 , 22:39
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Hmmm, I'm having problems installing "cruft" with an error of "Application packages missing: file"

Any suggestions?
 
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