diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 5e0a710e..f801abe0 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,22 @@
+livecd-rootfs (2.482) bionic; urgency=medium
+
+  * Remove boot/grub leftovers from our root squashfs, left behind after
+    grub purge.
+  * Remove apt, debconf, dpkg cruft files from /var/cache and /var/lib in all
+    our livefses.
+  * Pass --cache false to lb config; otherwise we copy around caches of
+    .debs that are never used properly, and which prevent us from emptying
+    /var/cache/apt in images.
+  * When building minimized cloud images, remove various packages that we
+    don't want installed by default.  Some are tools that aren't needed for
+    non-interactive use; some are libraries whose reverse-dependencies
+    will have already been removed; and one, open-vm-tools, should only be
+    included in images that are targeted to VMWare (which is not the case
+    for any of the current minimal images), rather than being included
+    directly in the cloud-image seed.
+
+ -- Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com>  Thu, 09 Nov 2017 23:49:43 -0800
+
 livecd-rootfs (2.481) bionic; urgency=medium
 
   * The target for x86 ubuntu-core images is VMs, so create them with
diff --git a/live-build/auto/build b/live-build/auto/build
index 7c263336..f9d05e2c 100755
--- a/live-build/auto/build
+++ b/live-build/auto/build
@@ -236,6 +236,10 @@ EOF
 			apt-get -y --purge autoremove"
 	fi
 
+	# remove crufty files that shouldn't be left in an image
+	rm -f chroot/var/cache/debconf/*-old chroot/var/lib/dpkg/*-old
+	Chroot chroot apt clean
+
 	if [ -f config/oem-config-preinstalled ]; then
 
 # This is cargo-culted almost verbatim (with some syntax changes for
diff --git a/live-build/auto/config b/live-build/auto/config
index 71ce31c0..697f7720 100755
--- a/live-build/auto/config
+++ b/live-build/auto/config
@@ -706,6 +706,7 @@ lb config noauto \
 	--initsystem none \
 	--bootloader "$BOOTLOADER" \
 	--initramfs-compression lzma \
+	--cache false \
 	${BOOTAPPEND_LIVE:+--bootappend-live "$BOOTAPPEND_LIVE"} \
 	$OPTS \
 	"$@"
diff --git a/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks/032-root-squashfs.binary b/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks/032-root-squashfs.binary
index bcce0a76..6c2d6ac8 100755
--- a/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks/032-root-squashfs.binary
+++ b/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks/032-root-squashfs.binary
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ chroot binary/boot/squashfs.dir chmod +x /usr/sbin/grub-probe
 env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive chroot binary/boot/squashfs.dir apt-get --purge remove --assume-yes '^linux-.*' 'linux-base+'
 env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive chroot binary/boot/squashfs.dir apt-get --purge remove --assume-yes '^grub-.*'
 env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive chroot binary/boot/squashfs.dir apt-get autoremove --purge --assume-yes
+rm -rf binary/boot/squashfs.dir/boot/grub
 chroot binary/boot/squashfs.dir mkdir /lib/modules
 
 chroot binary/boot/squashfs.dir rm /usr/sbin/grub-probe
diff --git a/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks/999-cpc-fixes.chroot b/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks/999-cpc-fixes.chroot
index 8b22fc8e..ef03273d 100755
--- a/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks/999-cpc-fixes.chroot
+++ b/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks/999-cpc-fixes.chroot
@@ -136,6 +136,27 @@ if [ -L "${rootd}/boot/initrd.img" ] && [ ! -e "${rootd}/boot/initrd.img" ]; the
 	rm "${rootd}/boot/initrd.img"
 fi
 
+if [ "${SUBPROJECT:-}" = minimized ]; then
+	# Remove various packages that we don't want in the minimized images.
+	# Some of these are tools that don't make sense by default
+	# non-interactively; some are libraries whose reverse-dependencies
+	# will have already been removed; open-vm-tools, it's a bug that this
+	# is in the common cloud seed because this should only be included
+	# in VMWare guest images, and we know none of the minimized images
+	# are targeted at VMWare.
+	_xchroot "${rootd}" env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive \
+		apt-mark auto '^lib.*' '^python*' vim-runtime 2>/dev/null
+	# FIXME: iso-codes is a dep of software-properties and shouldn't be
+	_xchroot "${rootd}" env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive \
+		apt-get -y autoremove --purge iso-codes xauth pastebinit \
+		plymouth open-vm-tools git shared-mime-info vim vim-common \
+		console-setup ncurses-term tmux screen policykit-1 \
+		xdg-user-dirs less publicsuffix run-one apport-symptoms \
+		ubuntu-cloudimage-keyring file
+
+	_xchroot "${rootd}" apt clean
+fi
+
 #### END COMMON ARCH FUNCTIONS