On Tue 11 Jan 2022 at 13:25:27 -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...
In the past downloaded packages were kept by default. That is no longer the case. > 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. > > I'm looking at over 7500 files amounting to over 9.5GB. apt clean > I also see /var/cache/dictionaries-common, which appears to be tied > to a spelling checker, which I don't use here. And /var/cache/samba, > which I also don't use -- there isn't a windoze machine around here at > all. I wouldn't purge dictionaries-common. Try apt purge dictionaries-common and make a judgement. You can probably get rid of samba. -- Brian.