Speed up ubuntu boot speed
Author: admin Posted in June 27, 2008
After I upgraded my Ubuntu to 8.04 from 7.10 ,I found the booting speed became to be slow,especially after I deleted KDE (i installed KDE once). I have speeded up the boot speed ,I share my experience as follow:
1.Delete Residual Config packages:
go to System->Administration->Synapic package manager, click botton Status to check whether your system has residual config packages.If your ubuntu has the residual config packages,you have to mark the residul config packages for complete removing one by one,and click button Apply to delete them,please see below picture for details:
2.Delete incomplete packages.
open Terminal,and then implement :
sudo apt-get autoclean
this command can delete all incomplete packages
3.Delete isolated libraies.
sudo apt-get install deborphan
sudo deborphan
check if there are isolated libraies.
If have,please implement below commands to delete them
sudo deborphan | xargs sudo apt-get -y remove –purge
sudo apt-get autoremove
4. Disable unnecessary services
go to System->Administration->Services in order to shut down some unnecessary service, I shut down Bluetooth and Braille display management these 2 services.
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June 28th, 2008 at 7:11 am
Hi, great tips and very useful page, but i think the second tip should say
sudo apt-get autoclean
June 28th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Great tutorial! I think there are some erros in it though…
In step 2 shouldn’t “sudo autoclean” should be “sudo apt-get autoclean”?
Additionally, in step 3 shouldn’t “sudo deborphan | xargs sudo apt-get -y remove –purge” be “sudo deborphan | xargs sudo apt-get -y remove –purge”?
Thanks again.
June 28th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Haha, I had an “erro” in my comment on errors! Beautiful!
June 28th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Jim,polybart you are right,thanks,i have just revised this typo error.
July 6th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
thanks for your howto,
i do not notice a speed-up on boot in my system, but it is a very nice guide for how to clean the system, thanks again
October 8th, 2008 at 2:23 am
Speed up ubuntu boot speed…
After I upgraded my Ubuntu to 8.04 from 7.10 ,I found the booting speed became to be slow,especially after I deleted KDE (i installed KDE once). I have speeded up the boot speed…
October 8th, 2008 at 2:23 am
Speed up ubuntu boot speed…
After I upgraded my Ubuntu to 8.04 from 7.10 ,I found the booting speed became to be slow,especially after I deleted KDE (i installed KDE once). I have speeded up the boot speed…
October 8th, 2008 at 2:44 am
Great article… Thumbs Up on Stumble.
October 8th, 2008 at 11:20 am
I understand about turning off unneeded services to speed up booting, but I don’t see how all the purging,autocleaning,etc, of packages affects boot up speed, even though you do reclaim some disk space…
October 19th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Be careful with deborphan, stuff like libc6-xen might get picked up by mistake. Any replacement is a good candidate for this, as well as programs that you installed from source.
For instance, if you have sqlite3 installed to build some source package not installed by apt … removing it would break that package. If it was something you installed 3 months ago … you might not remember the dependencies that you introduced
Disabling unused services is cool, but piping something like deborphan is unwise.
But, its your PC, break whatever you like
October 29th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
this is fantastic, thanks for the info