Re: /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 03:11:38PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 08:58:59PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote:
> > I accidentally deleted /var/cache/apt now dselect complains
> > "/var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing". Since dselect isn't able to fix
> > this by itself how can I fix it manually? Neither apt-cache gencaches nor
> > apt-get check could solve it.
>
> mkdir /var/cache/apt/archives/partial. It's just a directory where packages
> are downloaded to. You might want to file a bug against apt for this.
Since the apt, archives, as well as partial directories were removed,
you can do it in one step with:
mkdir -p /var/cache/apt/archive/partial
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