Hi friends,

Tips to upgrade when you don't have enough space left on the root partition [ubuntu]

Suppose you want to do an upgrade of a few gb (upgrading from jaunty to karmic for instance) and you only have a 50-100 mb left on your root partition.

To do this....

1. Open a terminal and run the following command in order to delete the cached packages:

sudo apt-get clean

2. In your /home folder, create a new directory owned by root

mkdir -p /home/apt/cache

3. Create a new file at /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02homecache. Open a terminal and type:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02homecache

and paste this inside the file:

dir::cache::archives "/home/apt/cache";

4. Run this in a terminal, to make sure you don't have any syntax errors:

sudo apt-get update

5. If you followed the steps correctly, now you can begin your upgrade.

Thanks,
Rijus.

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