Not enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives

gb

Hi,

I just got my M10 installed with Xenial release candidate 4 version.
I wipe it so it is empty.

I want to try to install some packages via apt-get install, so I make it writable following these steps.

But when I try to install I get the following error.

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ sudo apt-get install sl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
sl
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
Need to get 23.5 kB of archives.
After this operation, 71.7 kB of additional disk space will be used.
E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/.

I looked how partitions were being used (df -h)

/dev/disk/by-partlabel/userdata 9.2G 3.0G 6.2G 33% /userdata
/dev/loop0 2.0G 1.9G 0 100% /

So the problem seems to be / partition is full since the very beginning.

Other people are facing similar issues, but it seems we haven´t find the solution yet.

Any suggestions?

advocatux

@gb making the system rw is not really a good idea for many reasons. If you want to use apt it's better to do it inside a contained environment, like Libertine for example.

https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/userguide/dailyuse/libertine.html

gb

Thanks for the tip @advocatux
I followed the instructions and I have a container working and I could install packages.