how do you get rid of downloaded packages

[Erik Heil]

Hi.  Normally, their are several ways of getting rid of packages that ahve
been installed on you're system.  Packages are by default stored in
/var/cache /apt/archives.  As far as actually using these packages on
other systems, their is actually utilities which create apt proxies.  You
could also even mount portions of /var via NFS--so their is a lot of
flexibility here.  personally, portions of the /var tree which are
transient i.e./var/cache, /var/tmp, etc. are mounted via NFS, because a
few machines here do not have a lot of local storage--mainly some Sparc64
machines..
--Erik


On Wed, 23 May 2007, mike coulombe wrote:

> Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 16:28:02 -0500 (CDT)
> From: mike coulombe <kb8aey at verizon.net>
> To: ubuntu <ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: how do you get rid of downloaded packages
>
> Hi, when you download and install a package, I assume the actual package is still on the system.
> How do you cleanup to get rid of them, and does anyone know where they are incase I want to save the packages to use on another system.
> Thanks Mike.
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