cannot remove partially downloaded packages

Yogesh Bhavsar · 05-20-2010, 11:54 AM

Hi. I have downloaded the package Sauerbraten (game) partially through Software centre(Ubuntu 10.04). Now I don't want to install it. Can anybody tell how to delete that partially downloaded package? It is wasting too much space....It is located in /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/
I tried to delete them manually but it didnt work...

fruttenboel · 05-20-2010, 01:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yogesh Bhavsar

Hi. I have downloaded the package Sauerbraten (game) partially through Software centre(Ubuntu 10.04). Now I don't want to install it. Can anybody tell how to delete that partially downloaded package? It is wasting too much space....It is located in /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/
I tried to delete them manually but it didnt work...

1. Go to a text terminal
2. Become root with 'su'
3. type 'rm <dateinahme>'
4. type 'exit'

When typing 'dateinahme' it is enough to type the first three letters and then press 'TAB'.

This ought to do te trick.

Brains · 05-20-2010, 01:41 PM

Have you tried with sudo?
Below is an example of how I removed a partial download in Debian as root from the command line:

Code:

fox:/var/cache/apt/archives/partial# ls
acm_5.0-27_amd64.deb
fox:/var/cache/apt/archives/partial# rm -f acm_5.0-27_amd64.deb 
fox:/var/cache/apt/archives/partial# ls
fox:/var/cache/apt/archives/partial#

In your case, because you use Ubuntu, you need to use sudo as such:

Code:

fox:/var/cache/apt/archives/partial# ls
acm_5.0-27_amd64.deb
fox:/var/cache/apt/archives/partial# sudo rm -f acm_5.0-27_amd64.deb 
fox:/var/cache/apt/archives/partial# ls
fox:/var/cache/apt/archives/partial#

If for some reason Ubuntu's security measures won't let you do it as a user, try as admin. by switching to admin. with command: su -, then try again.

Shadow_7 · 05-20-2010, 02:31 PM

Or cheat, boot a liveCD, mount the partition, and delete it that way. It's just a file on a filesystem. Now if you have it flagged in some way(dselect), it might try to start over / finish. Depending on what and how it became partial.

Otherwise sudo or root is needed to have permissions to that location.

Yogesh Bhavsar · 05-21-2010, 11:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fruttenboel

1. Go to a text terminal
2. Become root with 'su'
3. type 'rm <dateinahme>'
4. type 'exit'

When typing 'dateinahme' it is enough to type the first three letters and then press 'TAB'.

This ought to do te trick.

Thanks buddy! It worked..thanks a lot

evo2 · 05-21-2010, 12:37 PM

The "proper" way to do this would be:

Code:

sudo apt-get clean

Evo2.