> > /var/cache/install/$PACKAGE? > Why not /var/cache/$package/ > maybe /v/c/$package/install/ OK, I took the last one: [marc@scorpius sources]$ ls -al /var/cache/quake3-data/install/ total 78336 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16 2005-11-10 23:33 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 16 2005-11-10 23:32 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49289300 2005-11-06 10:47 linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30923961 2005-11-06 21:15 linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run When purging the package [marc@scorpius sources]$ sudo dpkg --purge quake3-data (Reading database ... 92306 files and directories currently installed.) Removing quake3-data ... Purging configuration files for quake3-data ... dpkg - warning: while removing quake3-data, directory `/var/cache/quake3-data/install' not empty so not removed. dpkg - warning: while removing quake3-data, directory `/var/cache/quake3-data' not empty so not removed. and that's the way I think it should be: the downloaded archives are not deleted. -- greetz, marc Yeah, yeah, yeah nothing like a bomb to sober me up, I'm fine. Crichton - Suns and Lovers scorpius.homelinux.org 2.6.13.2 #1 Fri Sep 23 07:23:21 CEST 2005 GNU/Linux
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