On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 16:11 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 04:09:40PM +1100, Michael Lake wrote: > > I have a lot in /var/cache/apt/archives > > Whats the effect of deleting the debs in there? > > Is there a correct Debian command to remove stuff there or do I just > > delete the files? > > apt-get clean should do it.
`apt-get autoclean` is better because it deletes the debs that are old leaving the current ones. Not as effective at releasing diskspace though :-) -- Ken Foskey OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
