Where r packages stored?

[David Hart]

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 05:50:36AM -0400, kareem shabazz wrote:
> I was just wondering, since I've been doing numerous updates with Dapper
> beta, where are the downloaded packages saved? Do they ever get deleted? How
> can I delete them if I need space on my hard drive (running a laptop)?

Packages are stored in /var/cache/apt/archive.  Synaptic can be
configured to delete packages once installed or after the cache grows
to a certain size.

To delete cached packages you can run 'sudo apt-get clean' from a
terminal.

-- 
David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>