Best CCleaner software for Linux Ubuntu. Top 3 best CCleaner alternatives for Ubuntu Systems. Install BleachBit, Sweeper, Ubuntu Tweak System Cleaning Tool on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 14.10.
For Windows, CCleaner is one of the most widely used System Cleaning Tool. It is sued to cleaning and freeing up disk space, delete junk / temporary files and speed up Windows speed. Sadly for Linux, there us no CCleaner. If you are looking for CCleaner alternative in Linux Ubuntu, here are the top 3 best CCleaner alternatives for Ubuntu Systems.
1. BleachBit
BleachBit System Cleaning Tool for Linux Ubuntu. BleachBit deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space, maintain privacy, and remove junk. Rid your system of old clutter including cache, cookies, Internet history, localizations, logs, temporary files, and broken shortcuts.
The software is designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean Adobe Reader, APT, Bash, Beagle, Chromium, Epiphany, Firefox, Flash, GIMP, Google Chrome, Google Earth, Internet Explorer, Java, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Opera, RealPlayer, Safari, Skype, Thunderbird, VIM, XChat, and Yum. Securely shred files to prevent undelete. Wipe free disk space to hide previously deleted files. Automate cleaning in batch files.
For Linux Ubuntu Systems, BleachBit is available by default Ubuntu Software Center and can be installed on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 14.10. You can run the following command to install it from the command-line Terminal:
sudo apt-get install bleachbit
sudo apt-get update
2. Sweeper
Sweeper is a system clean up tool for Linux Ubuntu Systems. Sweeper package is part of the KDE SC utilities module. Sweeper can quickly remove temporary information, such as web page cookies, browser history, or the list of recently-opened documents. It helps provide additional privacy on a system shared between multiple users.
Sweeper system clean up utility can remove the image thumbnails cache and clean the applications and documentes history, It is available by default Ubuntu repository (Ubuntu Software Center) can can be installed it from there. You can also run the command in a terminal to install Sweeper:
sudo apt-get install sweeper
sudo apt-get update
3. Ubuntu Tweak Tool
Ubuntu Tweak Tool is not just an ordinary system cleaning tool for Ubuntu systems. It is a powerful Ubuntu Tweak tool (customization tool). For systems cleaning tasks, Ubuntu Tweak’s Janitor tab lets you clean and delete browser cache, Software cache, thumbnail cache, clean and delete old apt repository, old kernel files and package configs.
Download the Ubuntu Tweak Tool package and install it manually (.deb). Click here to download Ubuntu Tweak Tool