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Blue-Maned Hawk
Asked: 2019-08-30 09:28:07 +0800 CST

Broken package can't be removed without installing it, which I can't do

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I have a problem with my system. I want to get rid of some packages to free up some space, because I am running an Ubuntu chroot with crouton on a Chromebook with only 64GB of storage, almost all of which is filled.

However, I have a broken package on my system that is only partially installed. This is bad, because whenever I try to remove other packages, with the intent to free disk space, APT tries to fully install the package on my system, which isn't possible.

How can I remove this broken package without installing it first?

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1 Answers

  1. I have been through this before with MySQL migration gone bad. I would try this regardless of how much space this is going to save me. I just don't like having broken packages.

    apt-get --fix-broken install
apt-get purge kicad*
apt-get autoremove
apt-get autoclean
apt-get dist-upgrade

    Good luck!

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