Help! I cannot upgrade to New Ubuntu release 12.04.4 LTS

[Rick Magraw]

I followed Nils suggestion of moving the files, but now I am having a
problem:

Error
Archive directory /var/cache/apt/archive/partial is missing
Could not open lock file /var/cache/apt/archive/lock - open (2: No such
file or directory)
Unable to lock the download directory.

To my uneducated eyes could there be a syntax problem in the two lines of
commands?

sudo mv /var/cache/apt/archives/ /home
sudo ln -s /home/archives /var/cache/apt/




On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 1:02 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> Nils Kassube wrote:
> > I don't think there is a chance to clean up that much space. Therefore
> > it is a bit tricky to make it work. You could mount an external disk
> > partition to the directory "/var/cache/apt/archives/" before you try
> > the upgrade again.
>
> Another even easier option would be to move that directory to the /home
> partition:
>
> sudo mv /var/cache/apt/archives/ /home
> sudo ln -s /home/archives /var/cache/apt/
>
>
> Nils
>
>
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