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Re: Preventing apt from storing too much locally



--- Andy Smith <andy@lug.org.uk> wrote:
> I can see a number of files in /var/cache/apt on each machine; is
> there a way to prevent as much as possible of this stuff from being
> cached?

man apt.conf

You're looking for:

Dir::Cache::archives

This contains references to pkgcache and srcpkgcache.  You can turn
these off if you wish, in favour of using apt-proxy, or apt-cacher or
whatever.

But I'd be more inclined to run:

apt-get {auto,}clean

every so often.

-- Thomas Adam

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