[PLUG] where do packages go?

[Nick Traxler]

"derrick.s.kearney.1" wrote:
> 
> one of my great wonders of life... what happens to the packages when you
> use a program like apt-get and mandrake software installer?
> 
> i think it just goes to the ftp site and downloades the package and
> installs it, but where does it store the packages while it is downloading
> other packages (if for instance you have a lot to download). i have had
> this little problem of downloading and filling up my root hd, which lock
> me out of X, and when i look to delete stuff, i can't find and don't know
> where the packages that were being downloaded are hiding.
> 
> anyone with insite as to where they could be hiding?

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