Nigel Henry wrote:
To confirm, having tried Marc's script it *does* do exactly that - either with the option to agree the removal of each package or using the -d switch, to make it do it automatically. And it is the latest that is selected by default to be retained.<snip>I havn't tried Marc's script yet, but if it works as he says, it should remove all but the latest package versions in /var/cache/apt/archives.Perhaps "clean-all-but-the-latest" would be a good addition to apt-get. Only light hearted week-end ramblings. Nigel.
Andy -- "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"