> Do you mean the cache on disk (/var/cache/apt/archives)?
On my example it was /var/cache/apt/archives/partial.
> If so did you check that the package actually is there on your disk?
Yes, it does partly exist after executing and aborting the first
command.
> I tried to reinstall vim-tiny which was in my cache and saw the following:
This bug is about that "apt-get download" does not use the (partly)
cache of a previously "apt-get install". "apt-get install" alone does
indeed work for me like in your example.
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1547983
Title:
Cache isn't always used
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 dev with apt 1.2.3 and I'm noticing that using
"apt-get download" does not always use the cache like this example
shows:
root@ubuntu:~/tmp# apt-get install adwaita-icon-theme-full --reinstall
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 8089 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64
adwaita-icon-theme-full all 3.18.0-2ubuntu3 [8089 kB]
60% [1 adwaita-icon-theme-full 6033 kB/8089 kB 75%]
422 kB/s 4s^C
root@ubuntu:~/tmp# apt-get download adwaita-icon-theme-full
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64
adwaita-icon-theme-full all 3.18.0-2ubuntu3 [8089 kB]
12% [1 adwaita-icon-theme-full 1231 kB/8089 kB 15%]^C
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