ACK I accidentally sent that last reply before I finished it, my apologies. Here's the rest of what I meant to say..
On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 12:26:41PM -0700, Greg Strockbine. wrote: > plus in the install manual for Debian 2.2, it > says you probably will need 2-3 gigs for /var > so you can do an `apt' update in the future. > what's that all about?? Apt is a nice program for installing and upgrading packages. It automatically handles dependencies for you. When you install packages with apt-get, any packages you need are first downloaded into /var/cache/apt/archive and then from there they get installed. If you keep lots of packages in that directory without deleting them, it can easily get huge. Running "apt-get clean" will clear it and free up disk space though. But it's good to keep /var a decent size for when you do a major upgrade, because you could easily end up getting dozens of packages upgraded in one apt-get dist-upgrade command.. Tom
