Help! I cannot upgrade to New Ubuntu release 12.04.4 LTS

[Rick Magraw]

Here is the output from the command as per Nils request:

rsm at rsm-laptop:~$ ls -ld /var/cache/apt/archives
ls: cannot access /var/cache/apt/archives: No such file or directory
rsm at rsm-laptop:~$

N.B. I did manually type in the original command lines.


On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> Rick Magraw 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.
>
> Further to Colin's reply: When running the commands, did you copy &
> paste them from the email or did you type them manually? Maybe you made
> a typo? Please post the output of this command:
>
> ls -ld /var/cache/apt/archives
>
> What the commands should do:
>
> > sudo mv /var/cache/apt/archives/ /home
>
> Move the directory "/var/cache/apt/archives/" to "/home" including the
> subdirectory "partial" and the file "lock".
>
> > sudo ln -s /home/archives /var/cache/apt/
>
> Make a symbolic link in the old directory with the name "archives"
> pointing to the new location in "/home".
>
>
> Nils
>
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