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| Newer page: | version 34 | Last edited on Wednesday, October 4, 2006 11:16:43 am | by CraigBox | Revert |
| Older page: | version 33 | Last edited on Wednesday, June 7, 2006 2:47:16 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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!!! Releasing disk space
[APT] keeps copies of all the [Package]s you downloaded in <tt>/var/cache/apt/archive</tt>, which adds up over time. To remove all but the most recent copies, issue <tt>aptitude autoclean</tt>
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+!!! Holding packages
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+If you need to pin a certain package, you can easily do this with aptitude:
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+<verbatim>
+root@box:~ # aptitude hold linux-image-2.6.15-26-server
+ <snip>
+root@box:~ # aptitude dist-upgrade
+Reading package lists... Done
+Building dependency tree... Done
+Reading extended state information
+Initializing package states... Done
+Building tag database... Done
+The following packages have been kept back:
+ linux-image-2.6.15-26-server
+The following packages will be upgraded:
+ bind9 bind9-host clamav clamav-base clamav-daemon clamav-freshclam
+ <snip>
+</verbatim>
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+There is no command-line method for doing this with apt-get.
