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. </nori> -- .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/ // \\ @ maenad.net /( )\ www.maenad.net ^`~'^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
