/var/cache/aptarchives

[squareyes]

Peter Garrett wrote:

>On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:28:56 +0930
>squareyes <squareyes at internode.on.net> wrote:
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>>Hi all,
>>does /var/cache/apt/archives get emptied automatically.
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>In Ubuntu, it appears that by default it does get emptied regularly.
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>>I have been making copies of it to CD, went in to it this
>>morning, only deb's I had installed in the last few days there.
>>Everything else has dissappeared. Is this normal?
>>many thanks in advance
>>Take Care
>>Winton
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>In Synaptic, look under "Settings - Preferences - Files " and click the
>"Files" tab. You should see a series of choices including " Leave all
>downloaded packages in the cache".
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>You can use the apt commands "apt-get clean" and "apt-get autoclean" to
>delete unwanted cache files manually, once you set this option. I'm
>guessing there's a CLI way to set this up, but I haven't really
>searched for it, to be honest :)
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>"apt-get clean" is the more drastic of the two commands, removing
>all .debs, whereas "apt-get autoclean" only removes those that are no
>longer available.
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>HTH and all that...
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>Peter
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Hi Peter,
thanks for that, was keeping to install with dpkg -i if necessary, have 
slow dialup.
have set as above to leave in cache.
thanks again.
Take Care
Winton