According to Melvin C. McDowell: While burning my CPU.
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> As a new linux user, I've been installing quite a few programs to
> try them out. As my hard drive is only 500 MB, I need to work to
> conserve disk space. What files are safe to delete after you've
> successfully installed a program? I guess most of what I've installed
> have been C programs. Is it ok to delete files with a c extension, if I
> don't plan on recompiling?
Yes, providing you keep the "tar" archive somewhere safe and you installed
the binary by means of make install or what ever the "INSTALL or README"
files from that particular archive says.
For example the linux kernel source takes up about 50 megs of space,
possably more after a compile, if you keep "linux-X.X.X.tar.gz" in a safe
place then after compiling a new kernel and installing it properly, you
could do the following.
cd /usr/src/linux
rm -rf .*
Which removes all files from the /usr/src/linux directory.
I would copy /usr/src/linux/.config to a safe place also first as that file
could be used in fuchter compiles with the command "make oldconfig".
I hope this helps.
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