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how to free space in var/cache/apt/archives?? i install the IM Protocol Plugins v0.8 release and tried apt-get update and apt-get upgrade it says you dont have enough free space in var/cache/apt/archives

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apt-get clean
will remove what can be removed.

If that's not sufficient then you will have to remove some stuff from your rootfs (e.g. non-optified large packages)
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Disable some of the repos, it will clean up itself. Optionally you can clean by hand from xterm: apt-get clean
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Originally Posted by TA-t3 View Post
apt-get clean
will remove what can be removed.

If that's not sufficient then you will have to remove some stuff from your rootfs (e.g. non-optified large packages)


how to remove some stuff from rootfs? thanks
 
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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
 

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Originally Posted by b666m View Post
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
thanks for the info!
 
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Originally Posted by larry_al21 View Post
how to remove some stuff from rootfs? thanks
Use the application manager to un-install applications you can live without. Particularly any large ones (if you can identify them).
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