I remember my wife bought me a 540 MB hard drive and I
thought I'd never fill it up. Now I have a 300GB hard drive that has
approx. 40GB of free space left.

> I use "sudo apt-get autoclean" and "sudo apt-get clean"
>
> See details in Ubuntu help:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGetHowto
>
> apt-get autoclean - Run this periodically to clean out .deb archives

I will do the autoclean. Thanks for the info.

> * The package cache is in /var/cache/apt/archives, so "du -sh
> /var/cache/apt/archives" will tell you how much space cached
> packages are taking up.

Sweet. I'll definitely check this out. This is on a 20GB hard drive so
space isn't an issue, yet. Just checking for future reference.