On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 15:47, Sharninder wrote: > What's the use > of all the files in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory. They are an archive/cache of the debs you installed :) to save you the trouble of downloading again should you not have made up your mind if you want them installed. See man apt-get and search for clean and autoclean for how to get rid of them