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After another test it seems that "apt-get download" doesn't use an
advantage from the caches (partial and non-partial) as this example
shows:

root@ubuntu:~/tmp# apt-get install adwaita-icon-theme-full --reinstall
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 8861 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main adwaita-icon-theme-full all 3.14.0-2ubuntu7 [8861 kB]
55% [1 adwaita-icon-theme-full 4894 kB/8861 kB 55%]^C
root@ubuntu:~/tmp# apt-get download adwaita-icon-theme-full
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main adwaita-icon-theme-full all 3.14.0-2ubuntu7 [8861 kB]
2% [1 adwaita-icon-theme-full 178 kB/8861 kB 2%]^C
root@ubuntu:~/tmp# apt-get install adwaita-icon-theme-full --reinstall
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 8861 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main adwaita-icon-theme-full all 3.14.0-2ubuntu7 [8861 kB]
Fetched 3376 kB in 3s (1029 kB/s)                  
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
(Reading database ... 92319 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../adwaita-icon-theme-full_3.14.0-2ubuntu7_all.deb ...
Unpacking adwaita-icon-theme-full (3.14.0-2ubuntu7) over (3.14.0-2ubuntu7) ...
root@ubuntu:~/tmp# apt-get download adwaita-icon-theme-full
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main adwaita-icon-theme-full all 3.14.0-2ubuntu7 [8861 kB]
7% [1 adwaita-icon-theme-full 659 kB/8861 kB 7%]^C


I'm wondering why "apt-get download" does then depend on the cache. Or maybe "apt-get download" could be enhanced to use advantages of the caches and fallback to use no cache if something went wrong.

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Title:
  "apt-get download" fails if /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is not
  accessible

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I'm using Ubuntu 15.04 dev with apt 1.0.9.3ubuntu1 and if
  /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is not accessible "apt-get download"
  doesn't download the requested package. Here are 2 examples (missing
  directory and insufficient permissions because the user permissions
  (which are restrictive in this case) got inherited with sudo):

  sworddragon@ubuntu:~$ sudo rm -fr /var/cache/apt
  sworddragon@ubuntu:~$ apt-get download nvidia-settings
  E: Archives directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing. - Acquire (2: No such file or directory)
  sworddragon@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get download nvidia-settings
  Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main nvidia-settings amd64 346.35-0ubuntu1 [936 kB]
  Fetched 936 kB in 2s (392 kB/s)          
  sworddragon@ubuntu:~$ apt-get download nvidia-settings
  E: Archives directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing. - Acquire (13: Permission denied)

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