Raspberry Pi – Remove Default Apps

If you setup your Raspberry Pi using the NOOBs installer you likely have various apps that you don’t want to keep.

This script below will remove many of the preinstalled applications.

• wolfram-engine
• bluej
• geany
• greenfoot
• nodered
• nuscratch
• scratch
• sonic-pi
• libreoffice
• claws-mail
• claws-mail-i18n
• minecraft-pi
• pygame

for i in wolfram-engine \
 bluej \
 Greenfoot \
 nodered \
 nuscratch \
 scratch \
 sonic-pi* \
 libreoffice* \
 claws-mail \
 claws-mail-i18n \
 minecraft-pi \
 *pygame \
 geany \
 geany-common \
 penguinspuzzle \
 *pgzero; do
sudo apt remove -y --purge  $i
done
sudo apt autoremove -y
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y
sudo reboot

If you are running as a server you may also want to remove the user interface (Gnome)

sudo apt-get remove task-desktop -y
sudo tasksel remove gnome-desktop
sudo apt-get --purge autoremove -y