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Re: How to specify a different apt archive directory



Il giorno Sun, 3 Feb 2008 00:42:06 -0800 (PST)
Ravi <ra.ravi.rav@gmail.com> ha scritto:

> Normally the packages downloaded by apt are copied to /var/cache/apt/
> archives/ . But I am low on disk space for root partition. How can I
> ask apt to download those files to another directory and use then from
> there for later use also.

zless /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz

Put this in /etc/apt/apt.conf, or /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00yourlocalfile

Dir "/"
{
	Cache "var/cache/apt/" {
		Archives "archives/";
		srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
		pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";     
	};
};

David

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