Comment 7 for bug 1726173

Ran sudo apt autoremove, worked great! Freed up a bunch of disk space.

On Oct 23, 2017 09:42, "R Stillman" <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thanks for the advice on cleaning up the disk. I'll give it a go later
> this morning. Thanks again, you've been a great help!
>
> On Oct 23, 2017 9:11 AM, "Gunnar Hjalmarsson" <email address hidden>
> wrote:
>
>> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1364642 ***
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1364642
>>
>> Great that it worked. Actually this kind of problem has been reported
>> several times before, which is the reason why I marked this report as a
>> duplicate bug.
>>
>> One thing I see is that there seems to be room for cleaning up your disk
>> from unneeded packages by running the command:
>>
>> sudo apt autoremove
>>
>> (That command will take quite some time to complete.)
>>
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>> report.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1726173
>>
>> Title:
>> package ubuntu-docs 16.04.4 failed to install/upgrade: symbolic link
>> '/usr/share/help/br/ubuntu-help/addremove-sources.page' size has
>> changed from 60 to 0
>>
>> Status in ubuntu-docs package in Ubuntu:
>> New
>>
>> Bug description:
>> Upgrading 16.04.4 to 17.04 via Software Updater. All went well until
>> almost the last few minutes when I got the error msg: "Could not
>> install 'var/cache/apt/archives/ubuntu-docs_17.04.03_all.deb'". Added
>> message was: Symbolic link '/usr/share/help/br/ubuntu-help/addremove-
>> sources.page' size has changed from 60 to 0.
>>
>> Shortly thereafter I got a second error: "Could not install
>> ubuntu.docs" Additional msg was: "Package ubuntu-docs is already
>> installed and configured" (Quotes in both cases are mine)
>> A few seconds later I got the Error that the upgrade failed then the
>> screen reverted back to the desktop.
>>
>> At that point I opened a terminal to check to see what was really
>> running and got:
>>
>> r@r-M-7301U:~$ lsb_release -a
>> No LSB modules are available.
>> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
>> Description: Ubuntu 17.04
>> Release: 17.04
>> Codename: zesty
>> r@r-M-7301U:~$
>>
>> I was running 16.04.4 when I started.
>>
>> Hope this covers what happened vs what I expected.
>>
>> ProblemType: Package
>> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
>> Package: ubuntu-docs 16.04.4
>> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-37.41-generic 4.10.17
>> Uname: Linux 4.10.0-37-generic i686
>> ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4.5
>> Architecture: i386
>> Date: Sun Oct 22 17:29:16 2017
>> DuplicateSignature:
>> package:ubuntu-docs:16.04.4
>> Unpacking ubuntu-docs (17.04.3) over (16.04.4) ...
>> dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/ubuntu-docs_17.04.3_all.deb
>> (--unpack):
>> symbolic link '/usr/share/help/br/ubuntu-help/addremove-sources.page'
>> size has changed from 60 to 0
>> ErrorMessage: symbolic link '/usr/share/help/br/ubuntu-help/addremove-sources.page'
>> size has changed from 60 to 0
>> InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-15 (99 days ago)
>> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386
>> (20160803)
>> PackageArchitecture: all
>> RelatedPackageVersions:
>> dpkg 1.18.10ubuntu2
>> apt 1.4.6~17.04.1
>> SourcePackage: ubuntu-docs
>> Title: package ubuntu-docs 16.04.4 failed to install/upgrade: symbolic
>> link '/usr/share/help/br/ubuntu-help/addremove-sources.page' size has
>> changed from 60 to 0
>> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to zesty on 2017-10-22 (0 days ago)
>>
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