Or you could use the BleachBit tool (available in the repos) for an extensive cleaning. Nice sticker / button, btw ;) <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed Dec 03 2014 at 11:51:34 Leszek Lesner <<a href="mailto:leszek.lesner@web.de">leszek.lesner@web.de</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Am Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2014, 12:49:07 schrieb Steven Duckworth: > Hi, > > I am currently using a Fujitsu Siemens Intel Celeron M laptop with 40GB > onboard memory (my PC motherboard recently burnt out), and was wondering as > to the safest way to delete old or unwanted files in Synaptic Package > Manager. > > ... > For cleaning the cache of the packagemanager the terminal command sudo apt-get clean should help. Greetings Leszek -- Lubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>