On Ma, 11 ian 22, 16:32:20, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 January 2022 02:25:47 pm Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
> > On 1/11/22, 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 whic
On Wednesday 12 January 2022 12:48:38 am David Wright wrote:
> And now you want to aimlessly zap a few more directories for no better
> reason than the fact that they look unused. Well, take a look at
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/10/msg00308.html
> where I measured how much disk spac
On Tuesday 11 January 2022 11:02:56 pm David Christensen wrote:
> On 1/11/22 10:25 AM, 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 pack
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
>
On 1/11/22 10:25 AM, 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 gues
On 1/11/22 15:08, Marco Möller wrote:
[snip]
Just to give you some more inspiration about where else old stuff could
have accumulated:
[snip]
Another useful tool to free up space and remove unneeded packages is
deborphan.
After running deborphan, be sure to run it again a few times as it kee
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 11:11:21PM +, Brian wrote:
> > apt-get clean is a fairly useful command.
>
> Indeed it it is. But what useful function does it perform on a default
> installation? Some users appear to think that downloaded and installed
> packages are preserved in /vat/cache/apt/archiv
On Tue 11 Jan 2022 at 23:11:21 (+), Brian wrote:
> On Tue 11 Jan 2022 at 19:58:55 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > 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
On Tue 11 Jan 2022 at 19:58:55 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> 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
> > vers
c. marlow wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 15:07:02 -0600
> Kent West wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 1:59 PM Andrew M.A. Cater
> > wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> > > /va
On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 16:06:05 -0600
"c. marlow" wrote:
>
> Wow, That's amazing! So that means you've only done in place upgrade
> since 2013 with no nuke and pave's?
>
>
Correction:
Upgrades*
Thanks,
Chris
If you need to email me off list, please use ch...@cwm030.com
On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 15:07:02 -0600
Kent West wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 1:59 PM Andrew M.A. Cater
> wrote:
>
> > 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 o
On 11.01.22 19:25, 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
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 04:32:20PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
>
> Apparently the info about what's in this directory is also stored in some
> database somewhere, so just going in there and deleting a bunch of stuff
> will probably break something...
>
Yes.
> > > I've mostly used sy
On Tuesday 11 January 2022 02:25:47 pm Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
> On 1/11/22, 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
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 1:59 PM Andrew M.A. Cater
wrote:
> 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
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
On Tue 11 Jan 2022 at 14:25:47 (-0500), Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
> On 1/11/22, 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
On 1/11/22, 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'v
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
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 ru
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
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