On 3/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:paul@thecave.ws">paul@thecave.ws</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Tomasz,<br><br>"rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/*" cleans only the<br>lists not the archive.<br><br>The archive lives in /var/cache/apt/archive/ .<br><br>But you should not just rm these and apt will do it nicely without
<br>removing other files needed.<br><br>As a rule of thumb, rm is a last resort to fixing "stale" files.<br><br></blockquote></div><br>Phah. It will recreate as needed. Apt is fairly sturdy. And I've had all kinds of issues since apt moved to python in the background that only a nuke of these files will resolve.
<br><br>But if you want to be nice go ahead ;)<br><br>Tomasz<br>