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+#!/bin/sh -eux
+
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# Delete all Linux headers
+dpkg --list \
+ | awk '{ print $2 }' \
+ | grep 'linux-headers' \
+ | xargs apt-get -y purge;
+
+# Remove specific Linux kernels, such as linux-image-3.11.0-15-generic but
+# keeps the current kernel and does not touch the virtual packages,
+# e.g. 'linux-image-generic', etc.
+dpkg --list \
+ | awk '{ print $2 }' \
+ | grep 'linux-image-.*-generic' \
+ | grep -v `uname -r` \
+ | xargs apt-get -y purge;
+
+# Delete Linux source
+dpkg --list \
+ | awk '{ print $2 }' \
+ | grep linux-source \
+ | xargs apt-get -y purge;
+
+# Delete development packages
+dpkg --list \
+ | awk '{ print $2 }' \
+ | grep -- '-dev$' \
+ | xargs apt-get -y purge;
+
+# delete docs packages
+dpkg --list \
+ | awk '{ print $2 }' \
+ | grep -- '-doc$' \
+ | xargs apt-get -y purge;
+
+# Delete X11 libraries
+apt-get -y purge libx11-data xauth libxmuu1 libxcb1 libx11-6 libxext6;
+
+# Delete obsolete networking
+apt-get -y purge ppp pppconfig pppoeconf;
+
+# Delete oddities
+apt-get -y purge popularity-contest installation-report command-not-found friendly-recovery bash-completion fonts-ubuntu-font-family-console laptop-detect;
+
+# 19.10+ don't have this package so fail gracefully
+apt-get -y purge command-not-found-data || true;
+
+# Exlude the files we don't need w/o uninstalling linux-firmware
+echo "==> Setup dpkg excludes for linux-firmware"
+cat <<_EOF_ | cat >> /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/excludes
+#BEGIN
+path-exclude=/lib/firmware/*
+path-exclude=/usr/share/doc/linux-firmware/*
+#END
+_EOF_
+
+# Delete the massive firmware packages
+rm -rf /lib/firmware/*
+rm -rf /usr/share/doc/linux-firmware/*
+
+apt-get -y autoremove;
+apt-get -y clean;
+
+# Remove docs
+rm -rf /usr/share/doc/*
+
+# Remove caches
+find /var/cache -type f -exec rm -rf {} \;
+
+# truncate any logs that have built up during the install
+find /var/log -type f -exec truncate --size=0 {} \;
+
+# Blank netplan machine-id (DUID) so machines get unique ID generated on boot.
+truncate -s 0 /etc/machine-id
+
+# remove the contents of /tmp and /var/tmp
+rm -rf /tmp/* /var/tmp/*
+
+# clear the history so our install isn't there
+export HISTSIZE=0
+rm -f /root/.wget-hsts
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