Getting rid of archived stuff?

[tDream]

Hi

Does anyone know if it is possible to delete all those archived files that seem to not do a lot in the FinkCommander?

The reason I ask is because I just got 'Get Info' for my 'sw' folder and its now up to 2.25gig. Which I assume also contains files and pakages that are no longer used?

any ideas?

[sao]

Quote: tDream wrote: Does anyone know if it is possible to delete all those archived files that seem to not do a lot in the FinkCommander?

"Archived" in the Status Column of FinkCommander means that you previously installed the package but removed it so that only the debian archive remains on your system or that you ran the build command for a package but have not yet installed it.

If you are really short of espace in your HD:

You could delete everything from /sw/src, so in order to wipe *all* source files, just run:

sudo rm -rf /sw/src/*

But, you should keep in mind that you will have to redownload all sources if you ever need to rebuild the packages in question.

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Also, to clean up the old .deb files, run:

fink cleanup

to do the cleaning job.

And, if you only use 'apt-get' to obtain your .deb files (i.e. the binary distro) and want to clean up, run:

sudo apt-get autoclean

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Then, If you're running 10.3, you can remove:

/sw/fink/10.2 and /sw/fink/10.2-gcc3.3

to reclaim some space. If you are doing selfupdate-cvs, they will come back, however. Selfupdate-rsync leaves them alone.

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