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After removing, installing new or upgrading packages, there can be some packages not needed any more. | After removing, installing new or upgrading packages, there can be some packages not needed any more. | ||
- | They can be safely removed from the system. Every command has to be run with root privileges | + | They can be safely removed from the system. Every command has to be run with super user privileges **sudo**. |
Run: | Run: | ||
- | | + | sudo apt-get autoremove |
After upgrading packages, the package manager keeps all **deb** packages even if doesn' | After upgrading packages, the package manager keeps all **deb** packages even if doesn' | ||
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To remove all old **deb** packages from the system (the latest **deb** versions will be NOT removed), run: | To remove all old **deb** packages from the system (the latest **deb** versions will be NOT removed), run: | ||
- | | + | sudo apt-get autoclean |
If you would like to remove all the **deb** packages from the system, run: | If you would like to remove all the **deb** packages from the system, run: | ||
- | | + | sudo apt-get clean |
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