Old Packages

[grimm08]

Question is anyone else experiencing this. When I remove an a package or kernel from Ubuntu the files seam to keep the files on the server. Is this normal for Ubuntu?

[firbolg]

Are you talking about the deb packages in the apt cache? If so - yes it's normal.

You can use the apt clean or autoclean command to remove packages.

man apt-get

clean clears out the local repository of retrieved package files

autoclean clears out the local repository of retrieved package files. The difference is that it only removes package files that can no longer be downloaded, and are largely useless.

sudo apt-get autoclean

or

sudo apt-get clean

[grimm08]

I ran the commands, and I was able to see some old packages removed. As far as old kernel images I was not able to find any other kernels on the server after running the command.

Either those commands removed them, or Ubuntu removed it and I hadn't noticed.

Thanks for the help.

[firbolg]

As far as I know and have seen packages will stay there until removed.

Removing the kernel is a different thing - same as removing any package.

If you installed x and the package was not available locally - it'll be fetched, if you then remove x the package will now still be available locally so if you then reinstalled x it would not need to fetch the package.