Is it safe to remove?

[Bald Brick]

As Bald_Brick says, vim is a text-only file editor - useful for editing files like Xorg.conf if you're stuck in a text-only environment. I sometimes use it in konsole if I'm sud to root and I don't want to bother with all the dbus-launch stuff for kwrite to make a very simple change to a root-owned file. However, if you rarely (or never) use it you probably don't need vim-enhanced; vim-minimal should be adequate. VIM-X11 is pretty pointless unless you like using vim so much you want a graphical version of it.

I haven't got texlive-texmf. 700 MB sounds too big for any package. Why do you think it's taking up that much space?

I have it installed on one of my systems. Synaptic reports its size as 717MB. Together texlive, texlive-texmf and texmaker take up over 800MB, not counting the libraries and Perl modules they depend on.

[kjpetrie]

Well, then, it's certainly not something you want on a small system if you don't use it. Add in the space in /root (assuming the OP doesn't log in as root!) and a clear out of /tmp, and that's about 1.5 GB recovered.

[docnascar]

Sounds like texlive is going to get canned and I can get a fair amount of space back. Odd that its there because I surely did not install it intentionally that I know of. I've only used libreoffice or kwrite for my editing needs and they are sufficient for me.

Thanks.

[docnascar]

Removed tex and free'd up a bunch of space. All in all about 1.2G since the beginning of this thread. Not bad.

 

Thanks again for the tips everyone. Cheers!

I may still dig around and see what else I can remove, but I need to be careful and not borq my system.