on Tue, 04 Feb 2003 11:13:02PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin insinuated:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:36:38AM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote:
> > To safely remove old/obsolete packages from the cache: apt-get
> > autoclean
>
> Yes, do this first!
great, just what i needed. thanks.
> > If this still doesn't give you enough space you can tell apt to
> > put the cache somewhere other than /var, however I can't remember
> > how to do that. I think there was a thread regarding this a few
> > weeks ago, so have a look in the archives
>
> Here's my HOWTO on partitioning hard drives:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200301/msg05038.html
>
> I ran into exactly the same problem Nori did.
yeah, i didn't partition this one -- that's my excuse ;)
but i likely would have done something like this if i hadn't been able
to remove those debs for some reason.
thanks for the howto link.
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