Yeah I was already maxed out after doing that. BTW I think you can do the same thing w/ apt-get clean and apt-get autoclean. In any case, I had a mysql db expand in the end and there were no cached debs. I grabbed the 8GB SD card out of my digital camera, and I reinstalled Debian. So now i have an 8GB home partition instead of 512MB. I'm good to go now

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