Hi,
I've just moved to Debian Etch from 10 years on Mandriva, so a bit of a
newbie here.
Can anyone tell me what significance /var/archives has? I have a 1.25 GB
/var partition, which always used to be plenty, but archives is now eating
up 1.05 GB, so I'll have to move (or preferably delete) it.
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 05:38:42PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
Hi,
I've just moved to Debian Etch from 10 years on Mandriva, so a bit of a
newbie here.
Can anyone tell me what significance /var/archives has? I have a 1.25 GB
/var partition, which always used to be plenty, but archives
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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:22:38 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: /var/archive
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--- Tony van der Hoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I've just moved to Debian Etch from 10
On 23 Jan at 18:15 Gerard Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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/var/archives is strange that in my box I have: /var/cache/apt/archives To
clean the archives after upgrade you have to do:
Yes, my mistake; it's where you say.
sudo apt-get clean
Done that - works a
[snip]
/var/archives is strange that in my box I have: /var/cache/apt/archives To
clean the archives after upgrade you have to do:
Yes, my mistake; it's where you say.
sudo apt-get clean
Done that - works a treat!
What is the object of the archive, though?
Thanks very much to all who
Tony van der Hoff wrote:
On 23 Jan at 18:15 Gerard Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
sudo apt-get clean
Done that - works a treat!
What is the object of the archive, though?
When you download .debs, this is the default location where they are
stored for subsequent installation.
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 20:03, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
On 23 Jan at 18:15 Gerard Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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/var/archives is strange that in my box I have: /var/cache/apt/archives
To clean the archives after upgrade you have to do:
Yes, my
[snip]
Of course it's also usefull if for reason or other you remove a package,
then want to re-install it. You don't have to download it again, as it's
already waiting in the archives.
Thanks everyone; you'e a really helpful bunch here, and I'm learning a lot.
I like this distro :)
only thing that i have ever had in /var/archives are
the md5sum's and tarballs for backups created by
backup manager (needless to say i have since sent
backup manager to /dev/null)
jwlockhart
Registered Linux User #458799
Registered Kubuntu User #19678
this user is penguin powered
is now eating
up 1.05 GB, so I'll have to move (or preferably delete) it.
Don't do that!
Any advice, please?
The biggest space-waster in the /var/archive tree is apt. Your best
bet is apt-get autoclean, though if that doesn't free up enough space,
apt-get clean should.
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