Re: freeing up some space
On Tue 11 Jan 2022 at 19:58:55 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 01:25:27PM -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...
> >
> > 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.
> >
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> apt-get clean is a fairly useful command.
Indeed it it is. But what useful function does it perform on a default
installation? Some users appear to think that downloaded and installed
packages are preserved in /vat/cache/apt/archives until they are cleared
out. They are not.
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Brian.
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