Thank you for your help. > if you have a lot of packages in /var/cache/apt/archives > then you can clean them out and then apt-get will download > any new ones you need when you install, update or reinstall. There are a lot of *.deb files for packages that I have installed. Do I risk further damage to my system by saying rm *.deb? Do I need to go package by package saying apt-get remove (something I think I don't need)?