Saturday, October 16, 2010

cleaning after package managers

Once in a while, it may be a good idea to remove unneeded files generated by package managers. Downloaded package updates are not deleted after use, so we may end up with a lot of wasted space after several weeks.

On Ubuntu (10.04), those files are located under /var/cache/apt/archives and can be removed by doing:
aptitude clean
 See also remove old kernels.

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