I really want to free up disk spaces in my ubuntu, so i look up disk analyzer then i saw /var/cache/apt/archives take about 1.2GB space from my disk. can i deleted those packages to free up disk spaces? the packages there is a *.deb files, when i click on some them, it open ubuntu software center. an the ubuntu software center describe the newer upgrade is installed.
View 5 RepliesMy /var/cache/apt/archives directory has almost 9000 items and is over 12 GB big. All it contains is a bunch of .deb files. Do I need this file or can I delete it to save hard drive space?
View 2 Replies View RelatedThere is this directory with a lot of .deb files in it. /var/cache/apt/archives
Can i delete all these files in that directory? is it safe? They are temporary files right?
I have a wanderfulley working Kubuntu Karmic 9.10 box and love it. now I just did another install of 9.10 on a old box that dosent have eney network card. the old thing is runing prity well but I want it set up like this one that I'm on now SO I thought I'd try aptoncd the trouble is that I have done apt-get clean a few times sence seting this box up so wat's left in /var/cache/apt/archives is a varey incomplete set of packages. I'm trying to find a way to reload the /var/cache/apt/archives with all insaled packages.
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I ran into some complications with my ubuntu 10.10 install and couldn't boot into the desktop. I decided to use a live CD to get access to my downloaded cached packages and copied them to my windows partition, now I've re-installed ubuntu and manually restored the apps into the /archives/ directory, I've installed a lot of apps from the directory already but AptOnCD has refused to properly reflect the apps I have there, is there something I'm overlooking?
View 2 Replies View RelatedA few releases ago things used to work this way, but seemingly since Jaunty it no longer does seem to work:
This used to work: I have several Ubuntu machines to upgrade and limited (and highly expensive) bandwidth available. In the past I would upgrade/update one machine and copy the contents of /var/cache/apt/archives to the other machines to be upgraded. When updating/upgrading the distro the packages that already exist in /var/cache/apt/archives would not be downloaded from the Internet while utilising the locally cached .deb files, saving time and bandwidth.
The Problem: I have noticed that since 9.10 (and with 10.04) this no longer appears to work. While the .deb packages may exist in /var/cache/apt/archives, the same packages would be downloaded from the Internet regardless of the same .deb file existing in /var/cache/apt/archives/.
Question: What is wrong and how can I restore the functionality present in copying cached packages from machine to machine in order to save bandwidth?
Why I need this to work: At work (and I have no control over this...) we are limited to a total bandwidth of 3Gb per month for multiple users. Needless to say a single upgrade of a recent Ubuntu distro can decimate a large proportion of our monthly available bandwidth. Upgrading multiple machines is absolutely out of the question if the packages have to be downloaded every time.
An apt-cache server is not an option: The option of a local apt-cache server is not feasible due to the same 3Gb bandwidth constraint. An apt-cache server requires 15Gb storage per version of Ubuntu and the downloading/upgrading of 15Gb worth of packages for that storage is not an option due to the 3Gb limitation.
I have a dedicated server and I am having email issues etc (seemingly) because the /var directory is 97% full
I would like to know if it is safe to clear it and how to clear it (assuming it will not disrupt/kill server services to do so).
I have a 'Matrix' control panel so i can view the storage etc but it does not have an way of clearing the /Var directory.
I have Putty Access to root but do not know much about command line access.
I found a few threads but the information is not clear to me as there seems to be an assumption of (basic?) knowledge I don't yet have.
My linux support guru that usually does this kind of thing for me is away and not contactable and my server is grinding to a halt and unable to store/send email.
I have only a very basic understanding of command line but really need to get this sorted ASAP.
Is it possible and SAFE to delete files via FTP from the /var/cache/apt/archives?
I was installing compiz on my machine and towards the end of installation i got an error saying:
dpkg:error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/udev-151-3-i386.deb
The program returned valude 1 or something towards that direction. I rebooted my X server however i got an error saying X server encountered a problem. I did apt-get install compiz and found out that many dependencies were missing so i tried apt-get -f install but i got the same error message at the end of the day. Im currently booted on windows XP.
I am running Ubuntu NN 11.04 on an AMD64x2 system, all updates current. I am trying to install a Canon Pixma ip1800 printer with no success after many hours of trying. I have 2GB RAM, an NVIDIA 256GB graphics card and 1TB HD. 11.04 runs great, recognizes my scanner (a separate Canon 670U), but no matter what, I cannot get the software to install correctly, although other Ubuntu Forums have posted instructions. Below is my Terminal output. Can you assist with specific instructions to use. I have tried removing and re-installing packages with Synaptic Package Manager and commands in terminal with no success.
See following for terminal i/o:
I have the following issue:
Running
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results in above error.
Running
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results in above error.
Running
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Is not able to fix this.
I have the same problem with my Ubuntu 9.10. I am using 64-bit computer and 64-bit Ubuntu.When I tried to install Flashplayer I got the message"E:/var/cache/apt/archives/flashplugin-installer_10.0.45.2ubuntu0.9.10.1_amd64.deb: conflicting packages - not installing flashplugin-installer "I tried to un-install all flash-player by "Synaptic Package Manager" and even un-install firefox. Then re-install them back. But still got this problem.I have tried many way I could. But now I am stuck.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI was trying to update from 9.04 to 9.10.
During the installation, I kept getting tons of errors. Finally something came up saying that I had to abort the installation and it did some stuff. I tried running an application, but I got an error. So I restarted the system.
The normal screen came up where I had to choose the Ubuntu stuff (I'm new to Ubuntu) in the box. I noticed that it had gone to 8.10... which I had earlier before installing 9.04, which went great. So I chose the first on and the system failed to start. I rebooted and tried all the other options, but they all had errors. Now I'm booted to Windows.
I installed Ubuntu from a CD I created. But it is now outdated because it is 8.10, and I have already upgraded to 9.04. 9.04 to 9.10 is where stuff went wrong.
my problem is the terminal:
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/) , are you root?
I'm looking to make a script that will do the following;
yum update -y
cd /home
wget [URL]
sh latest
(install various scripts like ConfigServer series, ClamAV)
edit settings in files
delete any downloaded archives (clean up)
reboot/delete self
Lately I sometimes get the error message:
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E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the download directory
when I try to update. I get this using both the Update Manager or using
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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
I try to build live usb-hdd on my Lenny and get this problem:
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I'm using squid as a proxy in our organization. My problem is whenever the squid cache folder size exceeds 3 GB our proxy server starts to hang. Is there a way to write a script that it will automatically delete the squid cash when it exceeds the 3GB limit.
View 7 Replies View RelatedHow do I empty the cache in Firefox? All I can figure out how to do is delete cookies.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've found a website [URL] that I've downloaded Basilisk II [URL] and SheepShaver [URL] from, I converted both inton deb archive using the command sudo alien, but while they both successfully converted and installed, and show up in the Applications menu, only Basilisk II launches. When I click on the SheepShaver icon, nothing happens. I had this problem with another SheepShaver RPM I downloaded elsewhere. I really want to use SheepShaver to run Mac OS 9 on my laptop, is there something I can do to get it to run?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have enabled the option to keep the yum cache when updating Fedora 12 and I was wondering if there was a way in which I could remove old versions of the same package from the cache?
I have Fedora installed on more than one machine and I make them share a common update location for their updates to avoid downloading the same packages twice (bandwidth quota expensive in Australia).
how I could accomplish that? yum clean doesn't seem to have any options to only remove old packages!!!
Example: The yum update cache has:
wireshark-gnome-1.2.5-3.fc12.x86_64.rpm
wireshark-gnome-1.2.6-1.fc12.x86_64.rpm
I wish to only keep the most recent version that is wireshark-gnome-1.2.6-1.fc12.x86_64.rpm, but for all the packages.
I have a desktop and laptop at home, both running the same flavour of Debian Testing. How can I configure apt on the laptop so that it first tries to download the packages from the desktop before going to the Internet?
View 2 Replies View RelatedThereś trouble with my keyboard and since no body is able to help iḿ thinking of reinstalling.I like to know if fedora keeps a cache of downloaded packages so that it can save me the bandwidth after i reinstall??
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy synaptic stops responding when I try to clear cache of old deb install packages
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy cache is full, and I've tried doing "apt-get clean" to no avail. I also can't find any apt.conf file in my system.Here is a screenshot of the error message that pops up when I open Synaptic Package Manager:PS: I'm pretty new to Linux, especially Debian; most of my Unix-like OS experience is with Mac OS X. My Musix installation is in a VMWare machine.
View 1 Replies View Relatedupon browsing the home folder in my ubuntu system, i came across a hidden cache folder..
it occupied around 700 mb of space..and im falling short of space..
can i delete the contents in the folder? are they safe to delete?
While installing the yum-utils to help trouble-shoot my ailing server, a message said
Quote: * updates: mirror.team-cymru.org
Checking for new repos for mirrors
There are 1 outstanding transactions to complete. Finishing the most recent one
The remaining transaction had 558 elements left to run
There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them.
Going from 10.10 to 11.04 and I get this message:[URL].. I honestly have no idea what most of those are (yes I'm a huge noob), so it's possible that it's necessary to delete some of them, but Handbrake? Open Office? Why would it delete those? What possible reason could there be?
Additionally, what does "no longer needed" mean? Is it going to delete those packages too?
after aptitude udpate i got:
Current status: 542 updates [+470], 28356 new [+1469].
There are 18 newly obsolete packages: devicekit-disks, gcj-4.3-base, libcelt0, libdirectfb-1.2-0, libgcj9-0, libgcj9-jar,
libgraphviz4, liblzma1, libmagickcore2, libmagickcore2-extra, libmagickwand2,
libmenu-cache0, libntfs-3g54, libx264-79, libxmmsclient5, libxxf86misc1, w32codecs,
xserver-xorg-video-v4l
How would i delete/remove obsolete packages? And why are they obsolete?
I ran into this bug: [URL]...I checked that overwrite-local was set to 1. So I want to delete all python packages that were installed by checkinstall with the /usr prefix.
Now it has been some time since I did this and I dont really remember. Does anyone using checkinstall know how to spot packages installed via checkinstall? I already checked the FAQ and doc of checkinstall, but no info on this.
I have slow internet connection so i keep each .deb package i download in my local archive for next installations, now there is a collection of some older and new versions of the same packages in my local archive, is there any way to delete the older versions and keep the latest one in my local archive.
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