When I try to install new programs, I'm having this error:
You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/
How can I increase space in the folder?
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Run apt autoclean: this will remove archives you no longer need. If that’s not sufficient, apt clean will remove all the archives; if necessary, they will be downloaded again in the future.
answered Sep 7 '20 at 5:40
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That's not how it works. Directories don't have their own size limits. The error actually means the filesystem the directory resides in doesn't have enough space left. It's like a room in a house: if you fill it up to where there's no space left to put more stuff in, you can't make the room (or a box in the room) bigger; you can only take stuff out. (Note: yes, there are setups where you actually can allocate more space to certain filesystems, but that most likely doesn't apply here.)– ddawsonJul 18 '21 at 13:06
If
apt autoclean
and
apt clean
do not help you can just upgrade the packages one after another with:
apt install <packagename> --fix-missing
You have to do it for at least some packages from the list provided by apt upgrade.
After some packages are upgraded try again with:
apt clean
apt upgrade
