Re: out of space in /var/cache/apt/archives
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:19:11PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> my /var is 465M. i'm trying to do and apt-get upgrade, which i
> haven't in a while, and got the following message:
>
> Need to get 69.0MB/109MB of archives. After unpacking 39.1MB will be
> used.
> E: Sorry, you don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/
> to hold all the .debs.
>
> ... which is true:
>
> orange:~# df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda5 93M 25M 63M 29% /
> /dev/hda1 29M 2.1M 25M 8% /boot
> /dev/hda6 6.0G 1.8G 3.8G 32% /usr
> /dev/hda7 30G 27G 2.3G 92% /home
> /dev/hda8 465M 407M 34M 93% /var
> /dev/hda9 465M 5.5M 435M 2% /tmp
>
> so, it's pretty full. 288M of that is in /var/cache/apt/archives, and
> are a lot of debs. can i safely delete these all to make room for the
> new ones? there's nothing here that i need for these packages to run,
> right?
>
> just checking.
Correct. 'apt-get clean' will delete them for you.
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