[xubuntu-users] Keeping *.deb in the archive (Ubuntu 16.04.2)

[lukshuntim at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, May 02, 2017 10:15 PM, François P. Rotzinger wrote:
> Greetings,
> After the installation of software or updates, the cache
> /var/cache/apt/archives is purged immediately. I tried without succes to
> get information, which file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d should be modified or
> added... Could you please give me a hint, what to do to keep the files
> in /var/cache/apt/archives?

Hi,

Try `man apt.conf`.

It says
"/usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz is a configuration file 
showing example values for all possible options."

regards,
-- st