On 1/11/22 10:25 AM, 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.
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?
Move data to RAID, backup system configuration files, remove system
drive, install blank SSD, do a fresh install, and configure by hand
(using backups for reference).
David
