Re: APT keeps deb in /var/cache/apt/archives
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 09:31:22PM -0300, Jack Kern wrote:
>
> `man apt-get`
Yes i've read that
>
>
> clean
> clean clears out the local repository of retrieved package
> files. It removes everything but the lock file from
> /var/cache/apt/archives/ and /var/cache/apt/archives/par-
> tial/. When APT is used as a dselect(8) method, clean is
> run automatically. Those who do not use dselect will
The point is that i used dselect and according to manual apt should clean
I found out why this didn't worked. One of the packages failed to install so
dselect didn't run apt-get clean and left *all* packages in
/var/cache/apt/archives. This should be documented somewhere.
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