Re: /var/cache/apt/archives

[Sander Smeenk <ssmeenk@freshdot.net>]

Quoting David Wright (ichbin@shadlen.org):

> I'm relatively new to Debian, and I just discovered that I have 
> accumulated over 1G of .deb's in /var/cache/apt/archives. Can the 
> contents of this directory be regularly wiped? Why isn't their a cron 
> job to do this by default -- does one loose something?

You can best run apt-get autoclean, it removes all .deb files that are
no longer on your system, or whose version is older than the one
currently installed.

Also you can edit/create a file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ called 99local
which holds the following:

DSelect { Clean "auto" }

to do the cleaning automaticaly after each time you use apt.

Regards,
Sander.

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