I was trying to install android studio via apt-get on my ubuntu gnome 15.10 amd64 machine and then I noticed that it was trying to download android-studio-ide-141.2422023-linux.zip which was around 363 mb and on my slow internet connection it was taking too long.I quit the terminal and started installing some other conky-manager.deb package via gdebi and then gdebi started downloading the same(android-studio-ide-141.2422023-linux.zip) file anyways. Everytime I quit gdebi and try to install the conky-manager.deb package again, gdebi starts the download again. Now I know that the two packages are not related in anyway therefor the android-studio-ide-141.2422023-linux.zip. cannot be a dependancy for conky-manager. My question is how do I stop this download and proceed with the download and installation of the actual dependancies for conky-manager?
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sudo apt-get autoclean
If it errors out with a "lock error" (*) or if you want to do it yourself ...
cd /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/
ls
The directory should be empty but your system will have the yet to finish .DEB files. Use a sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/* (safey 1st ;) ) to delete all or change the * for an actual file name. Do not delete the directory "partial/".
(*) if you are sure nobody is using the installer and the lock error is not correct you can remove the lock with
sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock
sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
sudo dpkg --configure -a
