Under Debian for most Linux distributions you can free up some disk space, simply by deleting the configuration files resulting unistallation of packages.
The commands to be used are:

dpkg –purge $dpkg –get-selections | grep deinstall$ | cut -f 1
dpkg –purge $dpkg –get-selections | awk ‘$2 ~ /de/ { print $1 } ‘

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dpkg –purge $deborphan

viaDebian – Free up some disk space.