Changing the installation path of "apt" in Ubuntu 18.04

Anas - · June 11, 2023

Hello, I have a dev kit card and it's almost running out of space (eMMC = 16Gb), the "apt" command installs directly on the / and it is mounted on the eMMC. However, I have an external SD card (64Gb) and I would like to use its space to download and install programs in it as I normally would on the internal memory. Is there any solution or guide for this ?

C2dan88 · June 12, 2023

10 hours ago, Anas - said:

Is there any solution or guide for this ?

Dont think so as apt packages tend to have hard coded file paths.

You may be able to use lvm to combine your existing emmc with your sd card.

https://linuxhint.com/lvm-add-new-disk-to-volume/

Sauron · June 12, 2023

The short answer is that you can't. The long answer is that you can but it's a huge pain and not worth the effort, but if you really want to try here's how: https://askubuntu.com/a/441725

However, the actual binaries often don't take up a lot of space; you can offload a lot of data from your main partition by mounting your other drive as your $HOME.