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Re: freeing up some space

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On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 1:59 PM Andrew M.A. Cater <amacater@einval.com>
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> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 01:25:27PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > So I'm poking around with mc,  and happened across
> /var/cache/apt/archives which has a LOT of *.deb files in it, and which
> seems to include many versions of the same package,  some of them many
> years old,  going all the way back to 2013.  I guess I've been running
> debian a little longer than I'd thought...
> >
> > Is it okay to just delete older versions of these files?  Or should I be
> doing something using one of the package management tools?  I've mostly
> used synaptic,  but am also aware of apt-get,  apt,  aptitude,  and am not
> real clear on their comparative capabilities.
> >
>

"aptitude clean"  will delete all the archived .deb files. I use this one
when I'm hurting for drive space, and don't foresee a need to reinstall any
of the packages.

"aptitude autoclean" will delete all the no-longer-downloadable archived
.deb files. I use this one when I want to tidy up the machine, but think
that maybe I might want to reinstall one of the packages and won't have a
working network connection at that time. If I'm not worried about dwindling
drive space, this is the one I use every few "aptitude full-upgrade"s.

I believe apt-get and apt have the same options.

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freeing up some space "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2022-01-11 19:30 +0100
  Re: freeing up some space Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-01-11 20:00 +0100
  Re: freeing up some space Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-01-11 20:00 +0100
  Re: freeing up some space Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2022-01-11 20:30 +0100
    Re: freeing up some space David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-11 21:10 +0100
    Re: freeing up some space "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2022-01-11 22:40 +0100
      Re: freeing up some space "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-01-11 22:50 +0100
      Re: freeing up some space Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-01-15 17:00 +0100
  Re: freeing up some space "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-01-11 21:10 +0100
    Re: freeing up some space Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2022-01-11 22:10 +0100
      Re: freeing up some space "c. marlow" <debian@cwm030.com> - 2022-01-11 23:20 +0100
        Re: freeing up some space "c. marlow" <debian@cwm030.com> - 2022-01-11 23:30 +0100
        Re: freeing up some space Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-01-11 23:40 +0100
    Re: freeing up some space Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-01-12 00:20 +0100
      Re: freeing up some space David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-12 00:30 +0100
      Re: freeing up some space Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-12 00:30 +0100
  Re: freeing up some space Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2022-01-11 23:10 +0100
    Re: freeing up some space Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2022-01-12 04:20 +0100
  Re: freeing up some space David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-01-12 05:10 +0100
    Re: freeing up some space "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2022-01-12 17:00 +0100
  Re: freeing up some space David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-12 06:50 +0100
    Re: freeing up some space "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2022-01-12 17:10 +0100

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