
Clean Ubuntu after an upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04, We just upgraded Ubuntu from Ubuntu 20.04 focal to Ubuntu 22.04 jammy, now we need to clean up our system a bit. First of all, let’s check that the system is up-to-date.
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y
Let’s uninstall unnecessary packages.
sudo apt autoremove -y
There are packages left from the old version, let’s list all the packages not available in the Focal .
[root@server]$ apt list --installed | grep installed,local
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
linux-image-4.15.0-96-generic/now 4.15.0-96.97 amd64 [installed,local]
linux-modules-4.15.0-96-generic/now 4.15.0-96.97 amd64 [installed,local]
linux-modules-extra-4.15.0-96-generic/now 4.15.0-96.97 amd64 [installed,local]
zabbix-agent/now 1:4.0.19-1+bionic amd64 [installed,local]
As we can see I have an old kernel and Zabbix which are still there. For Zabbix, the version in the Ubuntu is similar, a reinstallation will suffice.
sudo apt remove zabbix-agent -y
sudo apt install zabbix-agent -y
Let’s remove the old kernel
sudo apt remove linux-image-4.15.0-96-generic linux-modules-4.15.0-96-generic linux-modules-extra-4.15.0-96-generic
We also have quite a few packages that haven’t been completely uninstalled.
[root@server]$ dpkg --list |grep "^rc" | wc -l
113
Let’s remove them
dpkg --list |grep "^rc" | cut -d " " -f 3 | xargs dpkg --purge
We now have a much cleaner system ready to use 🙂
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