old contents of /var/cache/apt/apt-file/

Adam Funk a24061 at ducksburg.com
Wed Jul 28 19:14:42 UTC 2010


On 2010-07-28, Marius Gedminas wrote:

>
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 08:58:21AM -0700, NoOp wrote:
>> On 07/28/2010 07:57 AM, Adam Funk wrote:
>> > I noticed  (while looking at the stuff in /var/cache/apt/archives/)
>> > that my /var/cache/apt/apt-file/ directory contains a lot of old files
>> > (feisty through karmic) as well as the current lucid ones.  I guess
>> > they never get purged!  Is there any reason not to delete them myself?
>> 
>> Normally '$ sudo apt-get clean' will clean the entire archive.
>
> apt-file is a different tool:
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/en/man1/apt-file.1.html
>
> Try apt-file purge

That did it (followed by apt-file update).  Thanks.





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