How to remove a partially installed package that was interrupted due to disk space

Andreas Lundgren

I started to install a package using opkg but the installation failed due to not enough available space on file system.

Now I cannot remove it and reclaim the disk space occupied by the installation files. Where is opkg storing temporary files for installation?

My installation ended with:

Collected errors:                                                                                                                                                                                     
 * verify_pkg_installable: Only have 420kb available on filesystem /overlay, pkg libdb47 needs 440                                                                                                    
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package python3.

If I try to remove i, it's not there:

root@Omega-4E95:~# opkg remove python3                                                                                                                                                                
No packages removed.

df looks like this:

root@Omega-4E95:~# df                                                                                                                                                                                 
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on                                                                                                                                    
/dev/root                 5632      5632         0 100% /rom                                                                                                                                          
tmpfs                    30384       208     30176   1% /tmp                                                                                                                                          
/dev/mtdblock6            9280      8852       428  95% /overlay                                                                                                                                      
overlayfs:/overlay        9280      8852       428  95% /                                                                                                                                             
tmpfs                      512         0       512   0% /dev

luz

@Andreas-Lundgren

Have you tried the --force-remove option with opkg remove?