"Karsten M. Self" wrote: ... > In /var/lib/dpkg: > > 32504 info > 4564 available-old > 4564 available > 2816 methods > > ...is it possible to clear out the 'info' directory? This contains the > list, md5sums, postinst, postrm, preinst, prerm, and shlibs files for > packages. I get the feeling these may be useful ;-). not sure if it does exactly what you want but apt-get clean cleans up the downloaded files etc... erik