Caphead
join:2003-01-25
Waterbury, CT
| cleaning a deb system ok i was wondering if it was as simple as "apt-get clean"
to clean up all the leftover files/packages that "apt-get install" leaves after installing new software? with limited hdd space i would like to keep tabs on how to get rid of all the extra files and junk with this deb system.
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 yazdzik
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-26
Honesdale, PA
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| Re: cleaning a deb system Dear Cap,
To get rid of archived files, the command is apt-get autoclean.
Debian writers have a peculiar sense of the English language.
Best,
M
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Caphead
join:2003-01-25
Waterbury, CT
2 edits | ok thanks seems i did stumble across that command and have executed it.. just hoped it was going to clean a little more than just about 100megs
thanks again!
edit: was wondering exactly what the "apt-get clean" does then ?
clean - Erase downloaded archive files
autoclean - Erase old downloaded archive files
hrmm | |
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deblin
Dark Side of the Moon
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join:2001-09-01
Middletown, DE
| Another thing you can do to clean your system is to use deborphan to find so-called "orphan packages" - e.g. packages that have been replaced by another package or were incorporated into another package. This is more common for unstable/testing, but can happen in stable as well.
You can then run `deborphan` and look at the list to see what you can remove by inspection, or do something like:
apt-get remove --purge `deborphan`
Hope that helps.
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Caphead
join:2003-01-25
Waterbury, CT | ahh deborphan is rather nice thanks for the heads up! | |
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