Pls HELP! how to free space in var/cache/apt/archives?

[larry_al21]

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

[TA-t3]

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)

[zwer]

Disable some of the repos, it will clean up itself. Optionally you can clean by hand from xterm: apt-get clean

[larry_al21]

Originally Posted by TA-t3

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

[b666m]

you could try to link the cache to somewhere else:

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

[larry_al21]

Originally Posted by b666m

you could try to link the cache to somewhere else:

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!

[TA-t3]

Originally Posted by larry_al21

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).