ccleaner equivalent

I frequently use ccleaner to (cover my tracks), clean up unused data stored on my computer from web traffic and hotfixes on my windows system.

I was wondering if there is a piece of software that does the same thing for ubuntu that ccleaner does for windows?

Please and thank you.

From ubuntu garbagecollector

• YOu can try BleachBit

  From Ravi Vyas

• Computer Janitor can clean up old kernels and a bunch of other stuff. For history/cookies/etc, I like to just set Firefox to delete all that every time I close the browser.

  From maco

• Here is a blogpost that shows a few alternatives - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/07/daily-5-5-linux-equivalents-of-windows.html

  BleachBit and UbuntuTweak.

  From Falk

• You could use the user switcher applet to open a Guest Session.

  Do whatever it is you need to do and then log out.

  The history is not associated with your account and in any case and is lost when the guest session ends.

  From Richard Holloway

• I practice various methods to auto clean my disk which I'm mentioning here. Hope this helps.

  1.Use Disk Usage Analyzer by going to Applications->Accessories->Disk Usage Analyzer and click on the Scan Filesystem at the top to get it to analyze your disk usage pattern.

  Now u can easily analyze which files are waste and its time to trash them.

  2.Clean up your package installation using the following commands.

  clearing up of the partial packages: sudo apt-get autoclean

  clearing up of the apt-cache :sudo apt-get clean

  cleaning up of any unused dependencies: sudo apt-get autoremove

  A good practice to avoid any left behind is to use the autoremove command whenever you want to uninstall an application.

  sudo apt-get autoremove application-name
  

  3.Use Computer Janitor by going in Administration->Computer Janitor. It automatically scan and displays all the unused packages which can easily be deleted. But be careful it also shows the .deb packages installed manually(i.e. not using apt-get).

  And I'd suggest u to check out this page for more advanced techniques..

  Hope that was useful.

  Anurag : check this one also http://maketecheasier.com/4-more-ways-to-clean-up-your-ubuntu-machine/2010/08/06
  From Anurag