You can solve this by making a directory in another more spacious partition (/home for example) and make /var/cache/apt/archives/ a symlink to that directory.
hope this helps, Gudmundur On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:57:58PM -0500, Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: > I am in the process of upgrading my distribution to 2.2 potato? or > whatever is the latest stable. I have already done an apt-get check and no > errors were found. The problem is that I get an error > > Sorry, you don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/ > > I am only using 33% of my /var directory right now, does this file > need more than 30mb. If so then is there a way to specify a different file > to use? Maybe in apt.conf? > > Thanks in advance, > > Ian > > -- > Oh, workers can you stand it? Oh tell me how you can > will you be a lousy scab or will you be a man? > -Dropkick Murphys- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]