Manual for apt

[Tom H]

On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3 September 2016 at 13:00, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 4:01 AM, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
>>
>>> where do I find an English and a German manual for apt?
>>>
>>> Packages installed by either apt "full-upgrade" or "install", e.g.
>>>
>>> # apt -o APT::Color="0" full-upgrade
>>> # apt install alpine-pico
>>>
>>> are not stored in /var/cache/apt/archives/.
>>
>> Are you sure? (The following's on a Debian 8 system.)
>
> On my Ubuntu 16.04 I use apt and I have not done apt-get clean
> recently and I see
>
> $ ls /var/cache/apt/archives/
> lock  partial

On Ubuntu 16.10 (and possibly on a more recent Debian release than Debian 8):

# apt-get clean

# apt dist-upgrade
...
13 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
...

# ls /var/cache/apt/archives/
lock  partial/

# apt-config dump | grep Keep-Downloaded-Packages
Binary::apt::APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages "0";