Linux help needed

[Supp]

Hi peeps,
I recently installed Debian woody on my old notebook (CPQ presario 1207 = 100Mhz, 16MB Ram, 1,2GB hdd).

I need to 'clean-up' system a little, it's taking too much space.
Any general rule for removing files?

(meaning: I can uninstall them via aptitude, but there's still much junk all around da place...)

Thanks for help.

[Scoofy12]

what sort of "junk" are you talking about, and what are you doing with the laptop? debian is pretty good about being small but i guess 1,2G is a bit of a crunch if you want all the GUI goodness too.

one thing to note - dpkg has a --purge (i think) option to clear out any config and other related files of things you uninstall, if any. not sure if that helps you much though.

[Supp]

Junk = bind, iptables and such...
found some info'bout it yesterday.

dpkg --purge -> thanks.

[Scoofy12]

one other thing if apt-get remove isnt enough for you, there is a simple program called tasksel (that usually gets run during install) that provides a very coarse-grained selection of packages. if you find something installed there that you dont need, it could free up a fair bit of space. the other menu-driven system is dselect, but it scares me :scared:

[Supp]

dselect too...:scared: (surfing through it...)