Today while running sudo apt-get update, apt-get returned the following error:
Archive directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing.
I knew immediately why I was receiving this error. See, a few days ago, I was having some problems with low disk space. So I did what any knucklehead would do - I erased everything in the /var/cache directory!
No fear, a simple google search would easily find the solution to this dilemma. Without fixing this problem, I would no longer be able to update my system with apt-get.
To fix this error, all I did was this:
I opened up a console window and ran:
cd /var/cache/apt/archives
... which returned the error:
bash: cd: /var/cache/apt/archives/: No such file or directory
Ok, so I checked to see if the /var/cache/apt directory was there.
It wasn't.
So I created the /var/cache/apt directory with the following command:
sudo mkdir /var/cache/apt
And then I created the /var/cache/apt/archives directory with this command:
sudo mkdir /var/cache/apt/archives
And finally, I created the /var/cache/apt/archives/partial directory:
sudo mkdir /var/cache/apt/archives/partial
Now that those three directories were recreated, all I had to do was to clean apt-get's cache with:
sudo apt-get clean
And that did it. I was now able to run sudo apt-get update.
I had to wait for 4 days to upgrade to maverick...
I am now sorted.
Thanks a lot
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