Re: freeing up some space
On Tue 11 Jan 2022 at 13:25:27 -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> So I'm poking around with mc, and happened across
> /var/cache/apt/archives which has a LOT of *.deb files in it, and
> which seems to include many versions of the same package, some of
> them many years old, going all the way back to 2013. I guess I've
> been running debian a little longer than I'd thought...
In the past downloaded packages were kept by default. That is no
longer the case.
> Is it okay to just delete older versions of these files? Or should I
> be doing something using one of the package management tools? I've
> mostly used synaptic, but am also aware of apt-get, apt, aptitude,
> and am not real clear on their comparative capabilities.
>
> I'm looking at over 7500 files amounting to over 9.5GB.
apt clean
> I also see /var/cache/dictionaries-common, which appears to be tied
> to a spelling checker, which I don't use here. And /var/cache/samba,
> which I also don't use -- there isn't a windoze machine around here at
> all.
I wouldn't purge dictionaries-common. Try
apt purge dictionaries-common
and make a judgement.
You can probably get rid of samba.
--
Brian.
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