Aug
02
Ubuntu doesn’t require a lot of disk space to install, but if you’ve installed in a virtual machine with a small virtual drive, or partitioned most of your disk for your /home, you may need to free up some space on a system occasionally.
The APT package management system keeps a cache of DEB packages in /var/cache/apt/archives. Over time this cache can grow quite large and hold a lot of packages you don’t need.
For example, I installed AWN from a repository that frequently updates to the latest development versions. As a result, /var/cache/apt/archives contained 11 different versions of the package avant-window-navigator-trunk.
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