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   Lawrence D’Oliveiro  wrote:   
   > On Sun, 14 Sep 2025 20:04:50 -0000 (UTC), bp wrote:   
   >    
   >> Evidently I've just added too many packages.   
   >    
   > One occasional problem I had on my previous laptop was it would fill up    
   > the root partition every now and then with old cached package files. These    
   > are normally not needed after the package is actually installed.   
   >    
   > Check your disk usage for this cache with   
   >    
   >     du -ks /var/cache/apt/archives/   
   >    
   > and see if it looks excessive. Anything you delete from there should be    
   > automatically downloadable again if it’s needed. ;)   
      
   Bingo! It's over one GB. Not my whole problem, but a big chunk of it.   
      
   Thank you!   
      
   bob prohaska   
      
      
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