BleachBit is constrained to only delete files that can be safely removed, and it knows where they reside in the file system. It is written in the Python programming language and uses PyGTK. It searches the appropriate locations for you and shows you a preview of what it’s going to delete before it does so.
BleachBit quickly and thoroughly purged files from your system. It is quite easy to select which files to delete and which to avoid, and the previews help ensure that you’re not deleting the wrong things.
BleachBit’s interface is efficient and cleanly configured. It is powerful and easy to use.
This tool categorizes the file types into groups, and you can select or deselect entries in each category. For example, excess files from package managers are good candidates for being purged from your system. However, you’ll only see the apt category when BleachBit is running on Ubuntu and other Debian-derived distributions.
BleachBit changes since version 4.0
- Add packages for latest Fedora (32 and 33) and Ubuntu (20.04 and 20.10).
- Clean Chromium when installed as snap
- Add cleaner for Zoom
- Add cleaner for Slack messenger
- Clean more: Firefox bookmarked sites, moz_origins, favicons
- Add cleaner for Pale Moon
- Support shredding with deep scan
- Support advanced searches in deep scan: nregex, wholeregex, and nwholeregex
- Do not package the unneeded Winapp.py file
For more details check out the Release Notes.
Installing BleachBit
Ubuntu users can use this command:
sudo apt install bleachbitOn Arch Linux or Manjaro, type this:
sudo pacman -Syu bleachbitOn Fedora, the command is:
sudo dnf install bleachbit