Help! I cannot upgrade to New Ubuntu release 12.04.4 LTS

[Rick Magraw]

History as per Paul's instrux:

rsm at rsm-laptop:~$ history | grep archive
   23  sudo mv /var/cache/apt/archives/ /home
   24  sudo ln -s /home/archives/var/cache/apt/
   27  sudo in -s /home/archives/var/cache/apt/
   31  ls -ld /var/cache/apt/archives
   39  drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 2014-04-27 11:17 archives
   43  sudo ln -s /home/archives /var/cache/apt/
   44  history | grep archive
rsm at rsm-laptop:~$



On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Rick Magraw <rsmagraw at gmail.com> wrote:

> As per Paul's instructions
>
> rsm at rsm-laptop:~$  ls -l /var/cache/apt
> total 32220
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16519059 2014-04-28 16:11 pkgcache.bin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16443005 2014-04-28 15:20 srcpkgcache.bin
>
> rsm at rsm-laptop:~$  ls -l /home
> total 24
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 2014-04-27 11:17 archives
> drwx------  2 root root 16384 2008-10-15 09:34 lost+found
> drwxr-xr-x 46 rsm  rsm   4096 2014-04-29 13:11 rsm
> rsm at rsm-laptop:~$
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> Rick Magraw wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> Well, that explains it. :) I think you mistyped the ln command because
>> the "archives" directory is gone and there is no link with that name. It
>> would also match the error message. The directory
>> "/var/cache/apt/archives/partial" is indeed missing because the parent
>> directory is missing as well and the file "/var/cache/apt/archives/lock"
>> can't be opened because there is no directory for it. I Think it would
>> be sufficient to run the ln command again:
>>
>> sudo ln -s /home/archives /var/cache/apt/
>>
>>
>> Nils
>>
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