[NTLUG:Discuss] Update files

[Stuart Johnston]

On 04/23/2012 01:11 PM, Michael Barnes wrote:
> I am running Ubuntu Squeeze on my desktop.  I think it is 11.3 or
> something. At the time it was the latest LTS release.  After a couple
> of years of regular updates, I see that I have gone through a  number
> of kernel and other updates.  I'm sure these updates have left lots of
> old files on my machine.  Is there any easy way to find out what files
> are obsolete that can be cleaned out and free up some drive space?

Open Synaptic and filter by Status.  Installed (auto removable) will 
list packages that you no longer need.

Under 'Installed' search for 'linux-headers' and 'linux-images' to find 
old kernels to remove.  Make sure you don't remove the current ones!

> Also, for LTS versions, why are there no updates for new versions of
> Firefox and Thunderbird in the regular update packages?  I have to go
> in and download the newer versions of Firefox and Thunderbird
> manually, which is quite a pain.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxNewVersion
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-security/+archive/ppa