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. > > > > 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. -- Brian.
