Help! I cannot upgrade to New Ubuntu release 12.04.4 LTS

[Colin Law]

On 28 April 2014 21:31, Rick Magraw <rsmagraw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Did you copy/paste those errors?   If not then you should, you can
copy from a terminal with ctrl+shift+c.  I am surprised that is says
archive rather than archives (plural).

>
> 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/

Are you sure you got the plural correct here?  I hope you understood
what those commands were doing, if not then work it out and check that
it has had the desired effect.

Colin

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> 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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