Hi, I deleted the cache directory [only the archives iirc] to save space. However apt failed to work after that. Thats understandable as it "needs" a system directory....but what was really counter-intuitive was the error message was something like "E: could not dequeue object" . How does that help in conveying the actual problem in any fathomable way ? [Also is it not possible to do a mkdir -p to just create the empty directory?] Thanks. Regards, Vikram