Bleachbit, the popular system cleaner app, announced new major 4.6.0 release this Sunday!

It’s been almost 2 years since the last stable v4.4.2. While, version 4.5.x is there for beta testing purpose.

Compare to the latest stable release, the new Bleachbit 4.6.0 features:

• Microsoft Edge on Linux support.
• Firefox, Thunderbird, and Google Chrome installed as Flatpak support.
• Firefox installed as Snap (default in 22.04+) support.
• “shred with bleachbit” context menu for KDE (not enabled by default).
• Clean recent documents list on KDE 5

Shred with Bleachbit context menu for KDE

The release also has various other changes and bug-fixes. When cleaning Firefox, it does no longer show “no such table” error. And, it fixed admin mode launching issue when working on Linux with Wayland session. Other changes include:

• Clean recently-closed tabs on Firefox
• Clean autofill data in Chromium-based browsers
• Fix detection of invalid .desktop files
• Remove Windows-specific files from Linux packages
• And more. See release note for details.

BleachBit 4.6 can clean Firefox Snap in Ubuntu

How to Install Bleachbit in Ubuntu

The software provides official .rpm packages for CentOS, Fedora, and openSUSE, as well as .deb packages for Debian, Ubuntu and Linux Mint.

They are available to download at the link below:

Tips: for Linux Mint 21, click download the package for Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish. In case you don’t even know which Linux Distribution version is running, open terminal (press Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command cat /etc/os-release to tell.

Once you got the .deb package, either click open with “Software Install”, or open with “Gdebi package installer” if you have it installed.

Install Bleachbit .deb via Software Install

Or, right-click on blank area in your Downloads folder, and select “Open in Terminal”. Finally, run the command below to install it:

sudo apt install ./bleachbit_4.6.0*.deb

Once installed, search for and launch the tool from either start/applications menu or ‘Activities’ overview depends on your desktop environment.

Uninstall Bleachbit

To remove Bleachbit 4.6.0 in Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and their based systems, simply open terminal and run command:

sudo apt remove --autoremove bleachbit

BleachBit, the popular free open-source system cleaner application, updates recently with many new features.

It’s BleachBit 4.5.1, the beta development release series for the next major 4.6 version. The new release adds new applications support, including cleaning caches for GIMP, FileZilla, and Microsoft Edge.

As Flatpak and Snap apps are getting more and more popular today, the release also adds support for Firefox as Snap (pre-installed in Ubuntu), Thunderbird and Google Chrome installed as Flatpak.

BleachBit clean Firefox Snap in Ubuntu

For KDE user, it can now clean recent documents. And, in Preferences dialog, user can enable “shred with bleachbit” context menu option for KDE Dolphin file manager.

The release also has various bug-fixes. When cleaning Firefox, it does no longer show “no such table” error. And, it fixed admin mode launching issue when working on Linux with Wayland session. For more, see the release note.

How to Install BleachBit 4.5.1 in Ubuntu

BleachBit 4.5.1 refreshed the installers for newer Linux Distros, making it easy to install in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 23.04, Ubuntu 23.10, Debian 11/12, and Fedora 37/38. While the old Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, Debian 10 are also supported!

Just go to the official download page via the link below:

For Ubuntu user, select download the proper .deb package. Then, right-click on your Downloads folder and click “Open in Terminal“. Finally, install it by running the command below in pop-up terminal window:

sudo apt install ./bleachbit_4.5.*_all_*.deb

BleachBit is also available to install as Flatpak package, though it’s not verified (meaning unofficial).

To install the Flatpak package in Ubuntu, just open terminal and run 2 commands below one by one:

sudo apt install flatpak

flatpak install https://dl.flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.bleachbit.BleachBit.flatpakref

After installing the tool, launch it from either start/applications menu or the Gnome overview screen depends on your Desktop environment, and enjoy!

Uninstall BleachBit

For the application installed through .deb package, simply open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to uninstall it:

sudo apt remove --autoremove bleachbit

While the Flatpak package can be removed by running command:

flatpak uninstall --delete-data org.bleachbit.BleachBit

And, you may also run flatpak uninstall --unused to free up some more disk space by removing useless run-time libraries.