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grimoire
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Bleachbit

#1 Post by grimoire »

http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/features

BleachBit has many useful features designed to help you easily clean your computer to free space and maintain privacy.

Simple operation: read the descriptions, check the boxes you want, click preview, and click delete.
Multi-platform: Linux and Windows
Free of charge
Free to share, learn, and modify (open source)
Free of adware, spyware, and malware
Translated to 43 languages: Arabic, Asturian, Belarusian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Low German, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Tamil, Thai and Turkish.
Shred files to hide their contents and prevent data recovery
Shred any file (such as a spreadsheet on your desktop)
Overwrite free disk space to hide previously deleted files
Portable app for Windows: run without installation
Command line interface for scripting and automation
CleanerML allows anyone to write a new cleaner using XML
Import winapp2.ini cleaner files (a separate download) giving Windows users access to 440 additional cleaners
Frequent software updates with new features

Uses

Use BleachBit to:

Free disk space
Reduce the size of backups and the time to create them by removing unnecessary files
Maintain privacy
Improve system performance (by vacuuming the Firefox database, for example)
Prepare whole disk images for compression (common for "ghost" backups and virtual machines) by wiping free disk space

Cleaners

BleachBit includes a growing list of cleaners. Typically each cleaner represents an application such as Firefox or Internet Explorer. Within each cleaner, BleachBit gives options covering components that can be cleaned such as cache, cookies, and log files. Each option is given a description to help you make good decisions.

The following are a list of cleaners available in BleachBit 0.8.5. You should be able to see a list of options by hovering your most over the cleaner name.

Adanaxis
Adobe Reader
aMSN
aMule
APT
Audacious
Bash
Beagle
Chromium
Downloader for X
Deep scan
Easytag
ELinks
emesene
Epiphany
Evolution
Exaile
Filezilla
Firefox
Flash
gedit
gFTP
GIMP
GL-117
GNOME
GNOME Art
Google Chrome
Google Earth
Google Toolbar
gPodder
Gwenview
Hippo OpenSim Viewer
Internet Explorer
Java
KDE
Konqueror
Liferea
Links 2
LiVES
Metacity
Microsoft Office
Midnight Commander
Miro
MySQL
Nautilus
Nexuiz
Notify OSD
OpenOffice.org
Opera
Paint
PDFedit
Phatch
Pidgin
PlayOnLinux
RealPlayer
Recoll
Rhythmbox
Safari
Screenlets
SeaMonkey
Second Life Viewer
Skype
sqlite3
System logs
System
TeamViewer
Thumbnails
Thunderbird
TortoiseSVN
Transmission
Tremulous
VIM
Virt-Manager
VLC media player
Vuze / Azureus
The Battle for Wesnoth
Winamp
Windows Defender
Windows Explorer
Silverlight
WINE
winetricks
WinRAR
WinZip
WordPad
X11
XBMC Media Center
XChat
Xfce
Xine
X-Moto
Yahoo! Messenger
yum
Zsh

Advanced cleaners

Going beyond standard deletion of files, BleachBit has several advanced cleaners:

Clear the memory and swap on Linux
Delete broken shortcuts on Linux
Delete the Firefox version 3 URL history without deleting the whole file—with optional shredding
Delete Linux localizations: delete languages you don't use. More powerful than localepurge and available on more Linux distributions.
Clean APT for Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Linux Mint
Find widely-scatted junk such as Thumbs.db and .DS_Store files.
Execute yum clean for CentOS, Fedora, and Red Hat to remove cached package data
Delete Windows registry keys—often where MRU (most recently used) lists are stored
Delete the OpenOffice.org recent documents list without deleting the whole Common.xcu file
Overwrite free disk space to hide previously files
Vacuum Firefox, Google, Liferea, Thunderbird, and Yum databases: shrink files without removing data to save space and improve speed
Surgically remove private information from .ini and JSON configuration files with deleting the whole file

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#2 Post by Geoffrey »

Looked interesting, but it don't run
I tried it with Quirky120NOP with python installed

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info: starting BleachBit version 0.8.7
warning: cannot find GPLv3 license text file
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/bleachbit", line 42, in <module>
    import bleachbit.GUI
  File "/usr/share/bleachbit/GUI.py", line 40, in <module>
    from Cleaner import backends
  File "/usr/share/bleachbit/Cleaner.py", line 40, in <module>
    import Command
  File "/usr/share/bleachbit/Command.py", line 32, in <module>
    from sqlite3 import DatabaseError
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/sqlite3/__init__.py", line 24, in <module>
    from dbapi2 import *
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/sqlite3/dbapi2.py", line 27, in <module>
    from _sqlite3 import *
ImportError: No module named _sqlite3
also BleachBit as Administrator won't work, " su-to-root: command not found "
I can see that it needs sqlite, just wondering what else it needs to function

I just had a look on the support forum, seems that it has a lot of bugs in it.
It may be more trouble than it's worth, for me anyway.

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#3 Post by grimoire »

there's a link in their website, you can try the other versions if you want, the one that I've uploaded is base on debian lenny 5, there's an available ubuntu packages in their site too. :)
Last edited by grimoire on Mon 25 Jun 2012, 06:14, edited 5 times in total.

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#4 Post by zapjb »

Anybody get BleachBit to work in Lucid and how?

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#5 Post by grimoire »

Hi! zapjb, have you try this one. :)

http://portablelinuxapps.org/

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#6 Post by zapjb »

Couldn't get that to work. Too bad I really like BleachBit.

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BleachBit Alternative in Puppy?

#7 Post by Digital_Dissident »

Is there anything already in Puppy that offers at least some of the same functionality as BleachBit?

Namely, a way to quickly clean-up unnecessary files and data?
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#8 Post by DPUP5520 »

Here you go , a bleachbit that works on all Lucid puppies, haven't tested it on any others it is version 0.7.3 same that is in the Ubuntu Repos. After downloading and installing you must install Python-2.6-Lucid from the PPM and it will work flawlessly (hopefully, it did for me).

http://www.mediafire.com/?3f00aiwp1bedgh8
[url=http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=69651][b][i]PupRescue 2.5[/i][/b][/url]
[url=http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72178][b][i]Puppy Crypt 528[/i][/b][/url]

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#9 Post by DPUP5520 »

New pet out for Bleachbit 0.8.7. Requires Python-2.6-Lucid.pet. Uncheck to check for updates at start-up on first start.
[url=http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=69651][b][i]PupRescue 2.5[/i][/b][/url]
[url=http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72178][b][i]Puppy Crypt 528[/i][/b][/url]

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#10 Post by chrome307 »

@ DPUP5520

Thanks for this :)

It works well, however each time I run the application it informs me that I am running out of RAM, but when I check using HTOP, I'm told I have plenty of RAM available ( 2gb ). I am using a usb flash drive so unsure if this would be replicate on a frugal or full install of Lucid 5.25.

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#11 Post by DPUP5520 »

Interesting, i've more or less abandoned using usb sticks for installing puppy and have been running frugal installs directly to a partition on the drive, however I will look into your problem, HTOP does not always correctly report the amount of ram you have free correctly I have seen, or maybe thats just with my computer. Anyway I will look into your problem when I get a puppy install onto a usb stick and report back to you.
[url=http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=69651][b][i]PupRescue 2.5[/i][/b][/url]
[url=http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72178][b][i]Puppy Crypt 528[/i][/b][/url]

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#12 Post by Digital_Dissident »

I appreciate your efforts BleachBit and it's good to know BleachBit is available for Puppy but I was asking if there was anything already included in Puppy that did at least some of what BleachBit does.
chrome307 wrote:@ DPUP5520each time I run the application it informs me that I am running out of RAM,
Are you checking the option to wipe free space or memory in BleachBit? If so, I would suspect that either one could be at fault.

(By the way, you may be interested in this:

Flash drives dangerously hard to purge of sensitive data

And even in the case of hard drives, wiping unused space can provide a false sense of security, especially with journalised file systems)

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#13 Post by DPUP5520 »

To put it simply no Puppy does not include utlities that can do what bleachbit is designed to do. Puppy has the dd utility in it but thats about it. Noone ever said that bleachbit was supposed to be used for secure deletion as it is no way suited for that, if you are looking for secure file deletion i'd reccomend either wipe or nwipe.
[url=http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=69651][b][i]PupRescue 2.5[/i][/b][/url]
[url=http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72178][b][i]Puppy Crypt 528[/i][/b][/url]

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#14 Post by sjsrikanth »

Works well , but getting the RAM full warning!

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#15 Post by DPUP5520 »

Ok so I just tried bleachbit off of a usb which i'm posting from now and did not get a ram full warning or anything of the type and this is coming from a clean usb install of 525 with just python installed and bleachbit, could someone give me a screenshot of this, and trying running from terminal and see if any error or warning messages come up. What are the puppy versions that are coming up with the ram full error?
[url=http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=69651][b][i]PupRescue 2.5[/i][/b][/url]
[url=http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72178][b][i]Puppy Crypt 528[/i][/b][/url]

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#16 Post by sjsrikanth »

This is the error Im getting! using puppy 5.25 usb install.

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#17 Post by DPUP5520 »

Ok so I figured out it's a problem with wiping free disk space or doing any kind of deep scan which I don't use Bleachbit for which is why I never saw it and the error does happen with a frugal install to hd if theres not a lot of space left in the savefile. As for the error appearing in a frugal usb install it appears that puppy is incorrectly reporting the amount of ram that is left and therefore Bleachbit thinks that the pc/computer/laptop is out of memory and errors out.
[url=http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=69651][b][i]PupRescue 2.5[/i][/b][/url]
[url=http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72178][b][i]Puppy Crypt 528[/i][/b][/url]

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#18 Post by Digital_Dissident »

DPUP5520 wrote:To put it simply no Puppy does not include utlities that can do what bleachbit is designed to do.
Thank you for clarifying that.

Does Puppy automatically clear at least some of the saved logs and cache when they reach a certain size?

(This is just an honest and innocent inquiry; I do not mean to imply or suggest anything or make any point by it)
Noone ever said that bleachbit was supposed to be used for secure deletion as it is no way suited for that,
I had simply suggested that the RAM full error being reported in this thread might be caused by running BleachBit with the wipe free disk space and/or wipe RAM options checked- a conclusion you yourself reached in your latest post.

My caution regarding the limitations of wiping free space (especially on solid state flash media but also on hard drives) was a general one and not aimed at BleachBit specifically, about which I never meant to imply anything one way or the other.

EDIT: I just noticed a thread in the security section here on the concern with solid-state drives that I had mentioned:

The security limitations of solid-state drives

Looks interesting.

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#19 Post by DPUP5520 »

New version of bleachbit out. version 0.8.8 along wit some added extras.
Last edited by DPUP5520 on Sun 26 Jun 2011, 17:59, edited 1 time in total.
[url=http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=69651][b][i]PupRescue 2.5[/i][/b][/url]
[url=http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72178][b][i]Puppy Crypt 528[/i][/b][/url]

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#20 Post by sjsrikanth »

Hi Dpup5520

The 8.8 version doesnt seem to start.... 8.7 works great.


(puppy 5.2.5 ,frugal install in sda3,ext2 filesystem, openbox, python 2.6 lucid)

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