[ubuntu-uk] package removal.

[Neil Greenwood]

Hi Norman,

On 11/10/2007, norman <norman at littletank.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 18:53 +0100, norman wrote:
> > > I was thinking, (I know a dangerous thing to do), if I removed the Gimp
> > > 2.2.X folder from /var/cache/apt/archives/ would that cause any
> > > problems?
> > >
> >
> > Nope, no problems. The "nice" way to do it is to issue the "apt-get
> > clean" command to clean out the cache. You can remove files manually,
> > and if you do, and ubuntu wants those files to resolve a dependency
> > issue it will just go and get them again when it needs them.
>
>  Thanks, Al I will give it a go.
>

As Al said, it won't stop the package manager going off to download
those files again if you try to install the plugin.

But it won't hurt the installation at all.

Hwyl,
Neil.