Updates taking to much space??

[linker]

Hi guys

I've recently moved to debian dapper from fedora and i'm glad i made the change. Anyway... i have a question:

Everytime i do an update it seems that it takes a lot more space then it was supposed to, this is not new because i had the same "problem" on fedora. I know it may sound weird but i've checked a thousand times. Is there any possible way that extra space may be used for some kind of cache for roll back upgrades? can i clean it?

Thanks for any ideas.

José

[aysiu]

Re: Updates taking to much space??

Yes, the cache lives in /var/cache/apt/archives

[MoonRise]

Re: Updates taking to much space??

I've been wondering about that. So they can be deleted without problems?

[askrieger]

Re: Updates taking to much space??

The right way to do this is "apt-get clean" from a konsole. Look at "man apt-get"

[Fenyx]

Re: Updates taking to much space??

It's

sudo apt-get clean

But check the man pages for further info. Type

man:/apt-get

in Konqueror to view the man page from within the GUI. (nifty little feature )

[linker]

Re: Updates taking to much space??


it worked fine... it had about 450 MB of cache

thanks