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var/cache/apt/archives occupying huge space

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I am in the process of cleaning up my system. And I see a lot of space occupied by this folder /var/cache/apt/archives (1.5GB). Is it absolutely necessary to keep all these archives?

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answered 1 Year ago tresein · Accepted Answer

You don't need to keep them around if you don't want them. Executing a

sudo apt-get clean

will clean out the directory.