Software Updater broken on 16.04.x

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 19:48:48 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 19:40:41 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>It's overkill, but consider to do it anyway:
>>
>>1. Reboot
>>
>>2. Open a terminal and run  
>
>I've forgotten to make the overkill complete, first run
>
>    sudo apt clean
>
>or
>
>    sudo sh -c "rm -Ir /var/cache/apt/archives/*
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This should read                                 

     sudo sh -c "rm -Ir /var/cache/apt/archives/*"
                                                 ^ 
>>   sudo apt autoremove
>>   [snip]