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Removing earlier versions of installed package?

rated 0 times [ 31] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 50913 / 1 Year ago, thu, january 19, 2023, 5:41:48

apt-cache show firefox | grep Version and apt-cache show chromium-browser | grep Version in terminal is showing this output:

I guess, I've four versions of firefox and two versions of chromium-browser installed on my system. How can I safely uninstall the earlier versions of both, firefox and chromium?

It would help me for other softwares also, and always in future. Thank you!

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answered 1 Year ago egantfis · Accepted Answer

Actually apt-cache does not show you which packages or even versions of packages you have got installed on your system.
It just shows you detailed information of all available packages (and their versions) for your system. So do not worry about it.

If you want to clean up your system from old packages, dependencies and cached files (you may get a lot of free space after doing this):

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get autoclean && sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get autoremove

It's that easy.