Solved--Deleting archive

[chemtut]

Hi
I have a warning telling me that root partition is nearly full.On investigation I have 5.5Gb of "archives" with about 3000 folders.Can I remove them all without chaos resulting!
Thank you for any help.

[KernelKarter]

Which directory are these "archives" in and can you give an example of the folder names.

- Eddie

[chemtut]

Thank you for your response
They are in /var/cache/apt/archives and there are 3700
An example   acpid 2.0.4.1 pclos.i586 rpm

thanks

[Old-Polack]

Thank you for your response
They are in /var/cache/apt/archives and there are 3700
An example   acpid 2.0.4.1 pclos.i586 rpm

thanks

Yes, you can delete them. You can also avoid their build up in the future.

In Synaptic, Settings --> Preferences --> Files tab, set the second option to Delete your packages after installation.



To delete those already there, click the Delete Cached Package Files button.

[chemtut]

Thank you very much

[Old-Polack]

Thank you very much

You're welcome.