Cleaning errors in Xubuntu 16.04 about apt-fast HOT 9 CLOSED

i don't know what you mean

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apt-fast downloads to /var/cache/apt/archives/apt-fast
the apt-get with Xubuntu 16.04 (presumably the same one was the Ubuntu apt-get) is now unable to kill off that directory and clean it. "apt-fast clean" I think is calling "apt-get clean" so apt-fast can't even clean up itself.

One partial solution would presumably be to have "apt-fast clean" run "rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/apt-fast" and then call "apt-get clean" to finish up. That won't take care of problems where someone's using "apt-get clean" and wants to purge files downloaded with apt-fast

Note 16.04 is final today, and presumably lots of people will be upgrading from incremental releases like 15.10 and from other long-term support versions like 14.04, so this will start affecting lots of Ubuntu users.

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To prevent display this error, you can remove "/var/cache/apt/archives/apt-fast/" directory and change the DLDIR variable in /etc/apt-fast.conf to another path (i.e. /var/cache/my_apt-fast/archives/apt-fast).

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$ apt-fast clean
W: Problem unlinking the file apt-fast - Clean (21: Is a directory)

This has showed up for me since I upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 this weekend (I'm not an instant upgrader, like to give it a couple of months). After finding this post and reading though the /etc/apt-fast.conf file, I set this to the standard setting listed in the comments and all is now working fine, though I am concerned about the cleanup of that directory since it's not going to be presumably emptied by apt-clean anymore.

Seeing as how this will become be an ongoing issue moving forward with further releases of Ubuntu (unless they change apt), is there a better way for this to be fixed without the user having to adjust the conf file?

I agree with @stucka, the idea of having apt-fast cleanup that directory after itself (wherever the conf says it is) does seem like a solution (programs should always cleanup after themselves). However, also setting the to default to the standard directory (or something else) so that it doesn't interfere with standard apt operations should also be considered.

Thanks

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Hello, there is a solution to this issue on Ubuntu 16.04 Unity?

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@annat83 : Looks like the fix was implemented in September. I'm guessing you've upgraded an older system?

In your apt-fast.conf file, I think you're looking for
DLDIR=/var/cache/apt-fast

And you may have to manually remove everything in your /var/cache/apt folder first. Don't delete the wrong folder.

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@stucka So maybe deleting and reinstalling sure fix it then right?

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@annat83 , I don't know when you installed it or how you installed it or even which Linux variant you're running it on.

My guess is you can
sudo nano /etc/apt-fast.conf and add that line

Or possibly something like:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:saiarcot895/myppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install --reinstall apt-fast

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apt-fast 1.8.5-1 on the apt-fast/stable PPA should fix this issue. Please reopen if it still persists. Thank you for reporting and helping with workarounds!

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