[plug] apt-get sources.list

Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima tony at cantech.net.au
Thu Oct 3 12:36:54 WST 2002


On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Craig Ringer wrote:

> Definitely. There's no harm in a "rm -f /var/cache/apt/archives/*" 
> except that it clears the pkgcache  - but since anything in there is 
> usually already installed, I doubt you care. I'm sure there's a cleaner 
> way to do this via the apt tools, though.

apt-get clean     # = rm -f /var/cache/apt/archives/*
apt-get autoclean # removes only stuff that can nolonger be installed.

Yours Tony

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