0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 25 to remove and 23 not upgraded.
After this operation, 189 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
```
### 2) Empty The Trash Can
There might a be chance, that you may have a large amount of useless data residing in your trash can.
It takes up your system space. This is one of the best way to clear up those and get some free space on your system.
To clean up this, simple use the file manager to empty your trash can.
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### 3) Clean up the APT cache
Ubuntu uses **[APT Command][5]** (Advanced Package Tool) for package management like installing, removing, searching, etc,.
By default every Linux operating system keeps a cache of downloaded and installed packages on their respective directory.
Ubuntu also does the same, it keeps every updates it downloads and installs in a cache on your disk.
Ubuntu system keeps a cache of DEB packages in /var/cache/apt/archives directory.
Over time, this cache can quickly grow and hold a lot of space on your system.
Run the following command to check the current utilization of APT cache.
```
$ sudo du -sh /var/cache/apt
147M /var/cache/apt
```
It cleans obsolete deb-packages. I mean to say, less than clean.
```
$ sudo apt-get autoclean
```
It removes all packages kept in the apt cache.
```
$ sudo apt-get clean
```
### 4) Uninstall the unused applications
I would request you to check the installed packages and games on your system and delete them if you are using rarely.
This can be easily done via “Ubuntu Software Center”.
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### 5) Clean up the thumbnail cache
The cache folder is a place where programs stored data they may need again, it is kept for speed but is not essential to keep. It can be generated again or downloaded again.
If it’s really filling up your hard drive then you can delete things without worrying.
Run the following command to check the current utilization of APT cache.
```
$ du -sh ~/.cache/thumbnails/
412K /home/daygeek/.cache/thumbnails/
```
Run the following command to delete them permanently from your system.
