I have just a small 4GB SSD drive with my Ubuntu installation on it, and when I was going to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid), I had to free up some space. Instead of removing all programs that I had installed, I googled and found something neat.
New packages are downloaded to ‘/var/cache/apt/archives’ and by creating a link to another place with more space you will “trick” the upgrader.
I have also a 150GB drive which I have my home folder located in, so I created a folder there to take the heavy upgrading.
sudo su cd /var/cache/apt mv archives archives-original mkdir -p archives/partial mkdir -p /home/<username>/temp/archives ln -s /home/<username>/temp archives upgrade-manager
Restore to default:
rm archives mv archives-original archives rm -r /home/<username>/temp
Source:
http://www.webupd8.org/2009/11/how-to-upgrade-to-ubuntu-1004-lucid.html
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