You have a Debian, Ubuntu or similar installation, and your /var partition keeps getting full when you upgrade. You check /var/cache/apt/archives and find it full of the usual mix of current and old versions of downloaded packages. Somehow, they haven't been deleted after installation, or you keep downloading them but not installing them. You now need a quick and clever way of cleaning up this mess, so only the latest version of each package remains.
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Too Many Unknown PCI Devices
You just bought a shiny new motherboard, but the Linux kernel doesn't recognise some (or all) of the on-board PCI devices. Time to panic?
Cleaning Up a Debian APT Archive Cache
You have a Debian, Ubuntu or similar installation, and your /var partition keeps getting full when you upgrade. You check /var/cache/apt/archives and find it full of the usual mix of current and old versions of downloaded packages. Somehow, they haven't been deleted after installation, or you keep downloading them but not installing them. You now need a quick and clever way of cleaning up this mess, so only the latest version of each package remains.
