sudo apt-get autoclean
Cheers chris T
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 22:10 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> On Monday 30 June 2008 21:38:24 Jim Cheetham wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > > It it would seem to me to be a civil act to cut another CD so that I can
> > > give them all the updates and extra programs I have downloaded - some
> > > 500MB - so they don't have to suffer the experience of updating over
> > > dial-up.
> >
> > Cool. Copy everything in your /var/cache/apt/archives into theirs,
> > then they can run an update ... their index will update properly, and
> > all the packages will already be downloaded, therefore no extra
> > bandwidth will be used.
>
> Many thanks, but:
>
> While making the .iso file for transfer to the CD, I now notice that the
> archive of .deb files now has several, nay many, old .deb files which have
> been superseded.
>
> Is there some nifty utility with which I could purge the old junk files?
>
