Re: How do I move apt cache from /var/cache/apt/archives ?

[Robert William Hutton <rwh@helms-deep.cable.nu>]

Shahid Bhatti wrote:
> Hi,
> While doing a distribution upgrade on my newly installed Debian server 
> it seems I've run out of space on the root partition / because I got the 
> error message "E: Sorry, you don't have enough free space in 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/ to hold all the .debs."
>
> Now I have added the following line in my /etc/apt/apt.conf to move the 
> apt cache to another place ( "/home/aptcache" in this case) but even 
> then apt is not recognizing this change:
>
> Dir::Cache::Archives "/home/aptcache"
>
> Can you please tell me if there is another way to move the apt cache to 
> another place other than /var/cache/apt/archives/

mv /var/cache/apt/archives /home/aptcache
cd /var/cache/apt
ln -s /home/aptcache archives

Cheers,

Rob.