on Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 05:21:38PM -0600, Rob VanFleet (rvf@linux.wku.edu) wrote: > On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 04:33:23PM -0500, Brian Stults wrote: > > Is it common for people to keep all the debs after they've been > > installed. I always delete mine (or rather I allow dselect to do it). > > If I kept all the debs that I've installed I think it would take up a > > whole lot of disk space. > > I just keep the most recent, just in case. The best way to get rid of them is > do an "apt-get clean". Adding an "apt-get autoclean" to your cron'd "apt-get dist-upgrade --download-only" will automatically flush out redundant .debs. Particularly if you add the autoclean *after* the download. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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