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[peter]

thanks all, i guess this was a case where i should have RTFM'd again 
before i posted. *grin*

yum clean packages
apt-get clean

those two took care of it quite nicely.

thanks!
peter

On Mar 1, 2004, at 11:32 PM, Olaf Olson wrote:

> I was just reading the man page for yum and found that yum clean 
> packages will clean out the leftovers in the cache. You can also use 
> it to clean the header files, but this would mean you'd have to 
> re-download the headers, next time you do an update.
>
> I'd guess that apt has a similar setup.
>
> Olaf
>
> peter wrote:
>
>> am i asking for trouble if i delete the .rpm files in /var/cache/yum 
>> and /var/cache/apt? i'm running YDL on a machine with a small (2.1GB) 
>> hard drive, and space is at a premium.
>>
>> thanks,
>> peter
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