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My internet connection was lost while I was updating my OS from 16.04 to 17.04 and the process stopped.There were 10-15 files remaining to be downloaded.

Now after realising that 17.04 is not a LTS version I don't wanna update my OS. But what about the downloaded files? Will they occupy any space in hard drive? Will they affect my current OS 16.04? Should I delete them? If yes than how can I find them and delete them?

Zanna
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milan11
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Now after realising that 17.04 is not a LTS version I don't wanna update my OS...

LTS or not, you should ALWAYS update your OS! If you don't like non-LTS versions, don't install them. Updates are delivered to fix errors, so you should install them.

Just do 

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

and if mentioned in the output of above:

sudo apt autoremove

Downloaded packages are kept in /var/cache/apt and partial downloaded packages in partial in that directory. You can delete the files in /var/cache/apt, but it will be downloaded again next time you update, and the content of partial will normally be deleted when packages are fully downloaded. To delete the contents of /var/cache/apt/partial, you can run

sudo apt clean
Zanna
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Soren A
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apt-get stores all downloaded packages in /var/cache/apt/archives. the partially downloaded packages are in /var/cache/apt/archives/partial. to remove these packages and free up the space they are holding, you can sudo rm -r /var/cache/apt/archive

or simply apt-get clean will remove all downloaded PPA archives from the aforementioned directory - thus freeing up the space

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