Hi, I am trying to upgrade my distribution with apt-get dist-upgrade. Unfortunately it says that there is not enough space on /var/apt/bla/bla. What can I do? I tried creating a soft link to a place with more memmory but this did not help.

10x, Kalo

Ok, let's see your hard drive specs, what you've tried, and what happened.

Also df -a and post the output.

# df -a
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb3 497861 456990 15167 97% /
none 0 0 0 - /proc
none 0 0 0 - /sys
none 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
usbdevfs 0 0 0 - /proc/bus/usb
/dev/hdb1 202219 5945 185834 4% /boot
none 388616 0 388616 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdb5 5036284 4780452 0 100% /home
/dev/hdb9 97841232 10586136 82284992 12% /local
/dev/hdb8 497829 8247 463880 2% /tmp
/dev/hdb2 5036316 3084504 1695980 65% /usr
/dev/hdb6 5036284 59472 4720980 2% /usr/local
/dev/hda1 30664368 7509352 23155016 25% /mnt/windows
/dev/hda5 47331384 24250924 23080460 52% /mnt/winData
sunrpc 0 0 0 - /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs

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And here's what apt-get says:

# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded
GConf2 (2.6.0-4 => 2.6.0-7)
GConf2-devel (2.6.0-4 => 2.6.0-7)
................blablabla.....................
The following packages will be REPLACED:
dvdrecord (0.1.4-5)
(by (4.1.0-17.1)
................blablabla.....................
The following NEW packages will be installed:
kernel#2.6.8-1.521 (2.6.8-1.521)
lame-libs (3.96-1)
libregif (4.1.4-2)
libregif-devel (4.1.4-2)
libselinux-devel (1.11.4-1)
openssl096b (0.9.6b-14.1)
79 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 3 replaced, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 116MB/144MB of archives.
After unpacking 53.1MB of additional disk space will be used.
E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/.

Ok, here's my suggestion. Find a place on one of your hard drives with plenty of space left (/local for example) and move the entire apt_get download directory to that drive. Then go to the directory that you just pulled the apt_get stuff out of and try 'ln -s /local/[apt_get directory]'. Apt_get should work now. But having never used apt_get I can't give you much more specific advice.

I already tried that and it does not work. 10x anyway.
Maybe I'll repartition or read more about mounting and try to mount /local in /var/cache/apt/archives/ which might work.