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Re: removing obsolete packages



* Iwan Mouwen <iwan@vvier.tudelft.nl> [030401 19:28]:
> Hi,
> 
> is there a way to delete packages from the cache (or from some other
> directory) for which a newer package exists in that directory.
> My /var/cache/apt/archives has several versions of lots of packages and
> I want to remove them. apt-get autoclean doesn't seem to do what I want.
> 

What you want is "apt-get clean" 


"autoclean" only removes packages that can no longer be downloaded.


robert a. jacobs



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