[plug] Apt-Get

[Nick Bannon]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 02:31:13PM +0800, Shane Spina wrote:
> Hi and thankyou for the subscription.
> 
> I would like to know if there is a way to point apt-get to put the
> packages onto another drive as my main drive has very little room left.
> 
> Best regards and thankyou in advance

Yes - normally they're kept in /var/cache/apt/archives . You can
probably change this by setting Dir::Cache::archives in your apt.conf
file, though I haven't done that myself. Worst case, if you had free
space on /space, for example, you could ;
  mv /var/cache/apt/archives /space/aptarchives
  ln -s /space/aptarchives /var/cache/apt/archives 

However, simply cleaning it out on occasion ("apt-get clean") may be
all that you require.

It's advisable to keep a reasonable amount of free space on /var if
possible, because this is the sort of thing that can use it up
unexpectedly.

Nick.

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