Re: When to sudo apt clean?

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Default User wrote: 
> The biggest chunk of var used seems to be /var/cache/apt/archives, at
> about 1.7Gb. 
> 
> I am considering just running sudo apt clean (or sudo apt-get clean) to
> just clear out the packages cache completely, in order to free up space
> in /var.
> 
> I realize that any packages that need to be re-installed would take
> more time to do so, since they would have to come from online
> respositories.  
> 
> Other than that, is there any good reason not to do sudo apt clean?


Nope. It's just there to prevent having to re-download something
that you uninstall and reinstall.

-dsr-