{"id":49913,"date":"2025-10-27T13:32:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=49913"},"modified":"2025-10-27T13:32:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:32:16","slug":"bleachbit-5-0-2-pacman-snap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/10\/bleachbit-5-0-2-pacman-snap\/","title":{"rendered":"BleachBit 5.0.2 added Pacman and Disabled Snap Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-44602\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/bleachbit-icon-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/bleachbit-icon-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/bleachbit-icon-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/bleachbit-icon-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/bleachbit-icon-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/bleachbit-icon.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BleachBit, the CCleaner alternative system cleaner app, released new 5.0.2 in last week with support for cleaning more app caches.<\/p>\n<p>BleachBit is a free open-source application for Linux and Windows that can free up disk space by deleting cookies, cleaning internet history, discarding junks and removing logs.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It support cleaning thousands of applications, such as Firefox, Chrome\/Chromium, Opera, and more, removing apt, bash, and system caches, shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space, and vacuuming Firefox to improve speed without removing any data.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-49914\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bleachbit-dark-700x511.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bleachbit-dark-700x511.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bleachbit-dark-300x219.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bleachbit-dark-768x561.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bleachbit-dark.webp 926w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The last major 5.0.0 version, which was released in May, added cleaning more apps support, including Librewolf and Microsoft Edge for Linux, beta and snap versions of Discard.<\/p>\n<p>In the new 5.0.2 version, it now supports cleaning caches for <code><b>pacman<\/b><\/code>, the default package manager for Arch and Manjaro etc Linux Distributions.<\/p>\n<p>For Ubuntu and other Linux have apps installed as snap packages, the release also added support <strong>removing snap packages that have been disabled<\/strong>. It will trigger native <code>snap remove<\/code> command running silently in background to remove all disabled snaps, though it was not working good in my case as it stuck at <code>Sl<\/code> sleeping status waiting for something.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-49915\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bleachbit-remove-snap-700x488.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bleachbit-remove-snap-700x488.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bleachbit-remove-snap-300x209.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bleachbit-remove-snap-768x535.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bleachbit-remove-snap.webp 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Besides that, the new version also updated its UI. Like web browser, it now supports <code>Ctrl<\/code>+<code>Scroll<\/code> or <code>Ctrl<\/code> + <code>+\/-<\/code> keyboard shortcuts to change text font size, and <code>F11<\/code> to toggle full-screen mode.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes are mostly bug-fixes and translation updates. They include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fix Firefox vacuuming error for version 140 and later.<\/li>\n<li>Improve KDE stability by skipping KDE files when leaning system cache.<\/li>\n<li>Improve compatibility in headless and restricted environments such as crontab.<\/li>\n<li>Add description for Exaile music player, and update description for Audacious.<\/li>\n<li>Add new Gaeilge and \u0dc3\u0dd2\u0d82\u0dc4\u0dbd translations, and update 68 languages.<\/li>\n<li>Add packages for AlmaLinux, Debian 13, Linux Mint Zara, and openSUSE Leap 15.6 and 16.0.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, the release uses a newly renewed digital certificate that may cause temporary security warnings from antivirus software in Windows. For more, see the official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleachbit.org\/news\/bleachbit-502\" target=\"_blank\">release note<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Get BleachBit 5.0.2<\/h3>\n<p>BleachBit provides official packages for Windows and Linux which are available to download via the link below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bleachbit.org\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download BleachBit<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For Linux, they are <code>.rpm<\/code> packages for Fedora, openSUSE, etc distributions, and <code>.deb<\/code> for Debian and Ubuntu based systems. And most desktop software app now support installing them.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BleachBit, the CCleaner alternative system cleaner app, released new 5.0.2 in last week with support for cleaning more app caches. BleachBit is a free open-source application for Linux and Windows that can free up disk space by deleting cookies, cleaning internet history, discarding junks and removing logs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1904],"class_list":["post-49913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-system-cleaner"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}