On Tue, 2023-05-02 at 17:03 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 2/5/23 16:58, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 2/5/23 11:42, David Wright wrote: > > <snip> > > > > > > > > > > Have you tried running also > > > > > > apt autoclean > > > > > > I thought that just cleared /var/cache/apt/archives/. > > > > > > > > > and > > > > > > apt purge > > > > > > I've never tried that without a package name. What does it do? > > > > > > > RTFM ? > > > > man apt
Which doesn't say what 'apt purge' does without a package name. It says 'Performs the requested action on one or more packages specified via regex(7), glob(7) or exact match'. It doesn't go on to say what happens if you leave that blank. 3 possibilities that spring to mind is that this is and error, a noop, or means 'every package'. The latter you be real bad, the other two now a useful suggestion to people. Of course, it could be special cased to mean 'purge everything not installed', which count be useful, but the man page doesn't say that. -- Tixy
