Michael Magrath’s Blog

When you install updates, old package versions sometimes become redundant, and having them installed takes up space on your computer. You can remove unnecessary packages ‘autoremove’ option. From the terminal, run sudo apt-get autoremove . Similarly, download compressed package files are also kept in case they are needed in future, but this too can be stale. To delete package archives no longer needed, run sudo apt-get autoclean .