Re: Unable to apt-get dist-upgrade

[Geordie Birch <geordie@tao.ca>]

said Trey Sizemore (on 2003-02-21),

> My KDE appears to be at least partially fried...it was never fully
> installed but I didn't have any showstopper issues.  Today, when I
> logged in however, the taskbar is not functioning (anything appearing on
> the taskbar is not selectable).  Anyhoo, I was going to do an apt-get -u
> -f dist-upgrade anyway, but when I try, I get a message saying that I
> don't have enough space in /var/cache/apt/archives.  I have apt-get
> cleaned and this is what I have:
>
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hde5             495M  238M  258M  48% /
> /dev/hde8             6.3G  1.1G  5.2G  17% /home
> /dev/hde7             3.0G  2.3G  687M  78% /usr
> /dev/hde1              16G   14G  2.6G  84% /windows
>
> How can I increase the size of the directory in order to proceed with
> the upgrade?

I assume that apt wants to download more than 258MB.  You can make a
temporary link to a directory in a partition with more free space, like
/dev/hde8.

mv /var/cache/apt/archives /var/cache/apt/archives.backedupjustincase
mkdir ~/archives
ln -s ~/archives /var/cache/apt/archives


HTH,

Geordie.