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[SOLVED] too many unsuccessful flatpak updates lingered in this directory. It sorted itself out after rebooting the system.

var capacity 11.1 GiB, var usage 10.6 GiB

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[–] chellomere@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You can use baobab or ncdu to try to figure out what's filling it up.

[–] arsus5478@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I installed baobab 48.0.2 with sudo apt.

should I install ncdu 2.9.1 with uniget install ncdu? the apt version is older than that

[–] chellomere@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

You do you, but I think it's rarely worth it having the absolutely newest version of something. The Debian version of a package may be older, but often has the advantage of being well-tested. And the Debian version of ncdu is all I've ever used and it has worked well.

uniget, huh? That's not a package manager I've ever heard of before.