Linux Tips

If you want to reinstall and reconfigure all packages in your Ubuntu just type the following command in terminal. sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh -a

The following command help you to find the disk space used by different packages in ubuntu open a terminal window and run the command dpkg-query --show --showformat='${Package;-50}\t${Installed-Size}\n' | sort -k 2 -n | grep -v deinstall | awk '{printf "%.3f MB \t %s\n", $2/(1024), $1}' That will sort the packages by size, putting the largest ones on the bottom. you can pipe(|} the output for last 10 by using | tail -n 10 at the end of the command