I am building an image for an embedded Linux based on Debian. I did use apt-get update
before on the device that I want to use as a base for that image, so the lists under /var/lib/apt/lists
are quite large (almost 100 MB in size).
I want to keep apt-get
functionality (so I don't want to remove apt repositories) but I want to free the space used up in these lists (the lists almost double the size of the image).
Does anyone know how to do that? Can I just delete the files under /var/lib/apt/lists
?