On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 at 15:46, Henrik Ahlgren <pa...@seestieto.com> wrote: > > Pro tip: running "sudo apt clean" often frees up significant disk space > (relatively, in machines with tiny storage capacity) by removing all > cached package files from /var/cache/apt/archives.
Hi, another pro-tip: While 'apt-get' does keep downloaded packages in its cache by default, 'apt' does NOT do this, unless its default configuration is changed. So 'apt clean' is potentially less useful than 'apt-get clean' in the default situation. Explained here: https://superuser.com/questions/1405001/why-does-apt-do-not-store-downloaded-packages-anymore Note the last line below: $ apt-config dump | grep -E 'Cache|Downloaded' Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt"; Dir::Cache::archives "archives/"; Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin"; Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin"; Binary::apt::APT::Cache ""; Binary::apt::APT::Cache::Show ""; Binary::apt::APT::Cache::Show::Version "2"; Binary::apt::APT::Cache::AllVersions "0"; Binary::apt::APT::Cache::ShowVirtuals "1"; Binary::apt::APT::Cache::Search ""; Binary::apt::APT::Cache::Search::Version "2"; Binary::apt::APT::Cache::ShowDependencyType "1"; Binary::apt::APT::Cache::ShowVersion "1"; Binary::apt::APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages "0";
