← All Kali Issues
apt

Disk space full during install

S System Critical

🔴 Error Message

E: You dont have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives

📖 What This Means

Not enough disk space to download and install packages.

🔧 Step-by-Step Fix

  1. Clean cache: sudo apt clean
  2. Remove unused: sudo apt autoremove
  3. Check space: df -h
  4. Remove old kernels
  5. Expand disk if in VM

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