you could try to link the cache to somewhere else: Code: apt-get update -o dir::cache=/home/user/MyDocs/.apt-archive-cache apt-get dist-upgrade -o dir::cache=/home/user/MyDocs/.apt-archive-cache but i would be careful with this one... better solution is to disable some repositories in the catalogs
apt-get update -o dir::cache=/home/user/MyDocs/.apt-archive-cache apt-get dist-upgrade -o dir::cache=/home/user/MyDocs/.apt-archive-cache