Re: Use different cache dir for apt-get dist-upgrade
You can solve this by making a directory in another more spacious partition
(/home for example) and make /var/cache/apt/archives/ a symlink to that
directory.
hope this helps,
Gudmundur
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:57:58PM -0500, Ian Patrick Thomas wrote:
> I am in the process of upgrading my distribution to 2.2 potato? or
> whatever is the latest stable. I have already done an apt-get check and no
> errors were found. The problem is that I get an error
>
> Sorry, you don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/
>
> I am only using 33% of my /var directory right now, does this file
> need more than 30mb. If so then is there a way to specify a different file
> to use? Maybe in apt.conf?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ian
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