Bug#40438: apt wastes diskspace

[Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@caesar.elte.hu>]

On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Michael Lachmann wrote:

> Package: apt
> Version: 0.3.9
> 
> I think apt should delete successfully installed packages from the
> download cache on the fly, instead of deleting them all at once only
> if the install of ALL packages was successfull.
> 
> The problem I am experiencing is this: I used dselect to upgrade
> packages. apt downloaded 106M of
> packages, and managed to upgrade them all, except for 2 packages. One
> package fails to install, because there isn't enough
> diskspace. Because of this, the download cache, is not cleared. If all 
> the successfully installed packages were deleted, there would be
> plenty of disk-space for the install...

have you tried apt-get autoclean from the command line ?

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