Re: apt-get autoclean configuration

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 02:51:28PM +0200, solitone wrote:
> >From 'man apt-get':
> 
> autoclean (and the auto-clean alias since 1.1)
>            [...]
>            The configuration
>            option APT::Clean-Installed will prevent installed packages
>            from being erased if it is set to off.
> 
> I've just lost some cached package files, although they are installed, so I 
> want to set this option. Should I create a file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d for this 
> purpose?

Yes, that seems to be the convention. Something around

  echo "APT::Clean-Installed no;" > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/no-autoclean

(of course you want to make sure that the file no-autoclean isn't there,
use a different name or append with >> or something. Look first :-)

Cheers
- -- tomás
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