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I am running out of disk space on my root partition, and I'm attempting to remove some packages and not others.

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First install debian-goodies by running the below command,

sudo apt-get install debian-goodies

Then run the below command to view the installed packages which has large size,

dpigs -H

By default,it was set to display installed 10 largest packages.You can set the number by -n parameter.

dpigs -n 20 -H

The above command lists installed largest 20 packages.

$ dpigs -h

Usage: dpigs [options]

Options:
  -n, --lines=N
    Display the N largest packages on the system (default 10).
  -s, --status=status-file
    Use status-file instead of the default dpkg status file.
  -S, --source
    Display the largest source packages of binary packages installed
    on the system.
  -H, --human-readable
    Display package sizes in human-readable format (like ls -lh or du -h)
  -h, --help
    Display this message.
Avinash Raj
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If you don't have Synaptic Package Manager install it by typing the following commands in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install synaptic

(But first make sure you have allowed the Universe repository. Here's a link for the how-to: How do I enable the “Universe” repository?)

Next, start Synaptic Package Manager (reload the repos if necessary) and click on the Status tab, then click Installed,

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From Settings menu, select Preferences,

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Click Column and Fonts tab, scroll to find Installed Size and mark it, then click OK,

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Now the Size column should appear in the Synaptic window. Click on Size to select sort column by size and toggle for ascending/descending order of arrangement.

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You can then select the packages you want to remove and apply the action from this application itself.

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