On Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 06:12:09PM +0000, Brian wrote: > On Wed 01 Mar 2023 at 17:43:41 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > In a pinch, you can "sudo apt-get clean", which purges the APT > > package cache, which lives in /var. You didn't show us /var, > > which might be interesting too (/var/log, in case some logs > > aren't rotated properly?) > > There should not be any actual packages in /var/cache/apt.
This depends on whether one uses "apt" or "apt-get" or some other program to install packages. By default, "apt" removes the .deb files from /var/cache/apt/archives/ after installing them, but "apt-get" does not. For other programs, who knows.