Thread: Is there any good reason not to run aptitude clean (or autoclean) weekly?

i want make weekly tarballs of /var, /etc, /home , /opt on machine weekly , ssh tarballs remote location.

code:

aptitude clean

takes lot out of /var/cache/apt files , afaik removes binaries installed packages derived.
there reason not make cron job , run weekly, or whenever ones updates scheduled?

-wolf

what can using these commands:

sudo apt-get autoclean

sudo apt-get autoremove

you can install deborphan , gtkorphan (= gui deborphan):

sudo apt-get install deborphan gtkorphan

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