A deb is an ar archive, with a magic number of !<arch>, consisting of three files. The first file is named debian-binary. It is a text file with a series of newline separated lines. Currently it has ...

Traditionally, Ubuntu has used the Deb package format. The Deb package format comes from Debian, which Ubuntu is based on. This is similar to other Linux package formats, like the RPM packages that ...

Simple question here. What is the proper 'debian' way of removing specific .deb packages from /var/cache/apt/archives? Is there a tool designed for it, or will there be ramifications if I just ...