Re: apt-get cannnot clean cache files

[Rob Bochan <debian-user@lists.debian.org>]

On Saturday 30 October 2004 09:11 pm, Kuang He wrote:

> It cannot meet my needs, for instance, I installed the package "screen"
> but after installation,
> /var/cache/apt/archives/screen_4.0.2-4_i386.deb still exists.

# ls /var/cache/apt/archives/
fontconfig_2.2.3-3_i386.deb
gftp-common_2.0.17+cvs20041029-1_i386.deb
gftp-gtk_2.0.17+cvs20041029-1_i386.deb
libfontconfig1_2.2.3-3_i386.deb
libxml1_1%3a1.8.17-9_i386.deb
libxml2_2.6.11-5_i386.deb
lock
partial

# apt-get clean  
# ls /var/cache/apt/archives/
lock  partial

HTH
HAND

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