Re: freeing up some space
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 04:32:20PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
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> Apparently the info about what's in this directory is also stored in some database somewhere, so just going in there and deleting a bunch of stuff will probably break something...
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Yes.
> > > I've mostly used synaptic, but am also aware of apt-get, apt, aptitude, and am not real
> > > clear on their comparative capabilities.
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> Time to read some man pages and some of the docs that also got installed on my system... :-)
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> > > I'm looking at over 7500 files amounting to over 9.5GB.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > What's the best way to get all of this excess stuff out of the system?
> >
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> Somebody (maybe more than one somebody) suggested a "clean" option, but apparently that will get rid of *ALL* of those files. I'd kinda prefer to keep the most recent of any of them that are still being used. In perusing the docs for aptitude, I see that there's an option in there to "clean obsolete files", which sounds like it'll do just that. I don't see such an option in apt-get, or elsewhere (so far).
apt-get autoclean, yes, as recommended by others in the thread
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> Yeah. But the detailed docs for aptitude are a whole lot more interesting and more detailed/explicit.
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> > If anyone test drives those for the first time, especially without
> > fully understanding what the notes are saying the options do, PLEASE
> > make sure to back up your system first. Been there, done that without
> > backing up in the past. It's not pretty..
> >
> > Cindy :)
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> From what I understand I should be able to get the software to show me what it's planning on doing before it actually goes ahead and does it. :-)
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Several of these also have --dry-run options or similar.
The quicker you can get yourself to 11, the happier you may well be :)
All the very best, as ever,
Andy Cater
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