How can I upgrade Ubuntu from 9.10 to 10.04 on a netbook with a 4GB root partition?

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Published on 2010-05-13T18:50:49Z Indexed on 2010/05/13 18:55 UTC
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I have an Asus EeePC 901, running Ubuntu 9.10. I'd like to upgrade it to 10.04. I don't want to reinstall, since I have a bunch of scripts and programs all set up.

However, when I attempt to upgrade using sudo apt-get dist-upgrade, I get an error asking me to free up another ~600MB on /.

My / is mounted on sda0, which is a 4GB SSD. I do not have 600MB worth of deletable stuff on /.

I've emptied my trash, and done apt-get autoremove and apt-get clean.

I do have plenty of space in /home, mounted on sda1 (a 16GB SSD).

Is there some way I can tell apt-get to use a different download/temp directory?

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