cache files

Asked Dec 08 '14 at 19:45

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I've accidentally deleted all contents of /var/cache files. I managed to reinstall most by doing dpkg -S /var/cache and apt-get --reinstall install PACKAGE_NAME (see here) on every package that I've found.

I still have some missing files into some directories. I re-created them but after rebooting, the problem was still here. Those are the packages with some files missing:

bind
dictionaries-common
fontconfig
ldconfig

Any ideas on how to force them to regenerate their files?

edited Dec 08 '14 at 19:53

John WH Smith

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asked Dec 08 '14 at 19:45

Mario Villani

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Actually the definition of /var/cache in the file hierachy standard is that way that it shouldn't hurt if you delete any file under /var/cache. – Axel Beckert Dec 09 '14 at 23:22
So i should not worry about it? Thanks. – Mario Villani Dec 10 '14 at 18:59
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Nope. At least I wouldn't. :-) And if I'd find something which breaks due to an empty /var/cache, I'd write a bug report. ;-) (Actually apt had such a bug until a few years ago. It refused to work, if the directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/ didn't exist. But that's history.) – Axel Beckert Dec 10 '14 at 22:29
that's not what the accepted answer here says: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/23156/can-i-safely-remove-var-cache – Paul Jan 13 '17 at 23:52

Restore /var/cache files

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