On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 09:45:03 +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: >On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 08:29, Gary Turner wrote:
>> What are my choices here? Must I resize the partition ( there is all >> kinds of room in the home or usr partitions I could steal ), or could I >> create a link into, say, home/debs? > >You can pass an option to apt-get to store the packages in your home, >something like >'apt-get -o dir::cache::archives="/home/your_home/debs" dist-upgrade'. > >Probably apt will complain about a missing "partial" directory, so >create one under "/your_home/debs". Thank you both, Andrea and David. These were good suggestions that were put to good use. I did use the apt.conf file, and created the "partial" dir under /home/gt/aptcache. This worked like a charm. 197MB downloaded, configured and done in 38 minutes total (it's great to be less than 1000 ft from the CO on a dsl line--1.5Mb/s down on the cheap service :^)) tnx, gt Yes I fear I am living beyond my mental means--Nash
