On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 6:36 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It's not in local ram, it's on disk...
>
>
> Ok, so looks like I have my "facts" confused with perhaps something else. As
> far as the cache goes. Still, run apt-get update before you use apt to
> install something. Especially if you use it very seldom.

You could put them in a tmpfs to cut down on writes ;)

/var/cache/apt/

voodoo@hestia:/var/cache$ sudo apt-get clean
voodoo@hestia:/var/cache$ du -sh apt
60K apt
voodoo@hestia:/var/cache$ sudo apt-get update
<>
voodoo@hestia:/var/cache$ du -sh apt
76M apt

Regards,

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https://rcn-ee.com/

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