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Re: q ad removing /var/cache/apt/archives/*



On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Robert Waldner wrote:
> this takes up pretty much space, my question is: can I safely remove the
> contents of the archives-directory? I couldn´t find anything regarding
> this in the docs, but some pointer to the proper FM would do fine ;-)

Yup. Go ahead. But have a look at apt-get autoclean and apt-get clean before
you do it...  It's the safe way to do it.  autoclean will delete non-current
packages, and clean will clean all archived packages.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh

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