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I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 - the Maverick Meerkat. Whenever I install software using the Software Center, it installs it to /usr/lib. I have less space in this drive. Is it possible to change the default installation path to any other place? And how?

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Finding and Installing Linux Software The Linux Software Repository. The main Linux distributions (-known as “distros” for short) all ship with commands to search, download and install new applications, fixes and packages from one (-or more) central repository. Nonfree for redistributable software that is not Open Source Software (as defined by the Fedora Licensing Guidelines); this includes software with publicly available source-code that has 'no commercial use'-like restrictions. Installation can be done either using a web browser, or via the command line. Graphical Setup via Firefox web browser. I have problem with fedora gnome software center. It wont even load, i reinstall it but same bug. When i enter in in it shows categories and when i click on some for example games, the unlimited loading screen begun. Fedora periodically sends out updates to the O/S and installed applications. If you want to review any pending system updates, you can do this in the Fedora Software Centre by clicking on the ' Updates ' tab.

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Debian/Ubuntu use a standard directory hierarchy. The command man hier will describe this for you. It is common for packages to create symlinks to place files in the correct place when the program expects them elsewhere.

There are two options I use to increase space on a partition: - As a temporary solution I create a directory on another partition for a directory like /var/cache/apt/archives which can take a fair amount of space. I then move the contents of the directory to the new partition and replace the directory with a sumlink.
- A permenant solution is to create a new partition for a large moveable directory like home, var or usr. Then I rsync the directory onto the new partition and mount it. Cleanup is done by mounting the root partition on /mnt and removing the files from the directory under /mnt.

Cleaning up /tmp and moving it to a tmpfs mount can free up space if it is on disk.

You may also free up space with the apt autoclean or apt clean commands. The second option will remove all download debs for /var/cache/apt/archives.

Running apt and removing obsolete kernels may also free up space. Usually two are sufficient, and they don't always get removed automatically. Don't remove the current kernel. If you haven't rebooted for a long time you may want to reboot to the newest kernel before removing old kernels.

Dnf is just like apt-get/apt. Gnome Software is the GUI for accessing PackageKit, which is a 'distro-agnostic' way of making a software store, it just communicates with dnf on Fedora. Dnfdragora is just another gui. Flatpaks are supposed to be a distro-agonostic way of packagins software, just like the Ubuntu Snappy format. In Ubuntu, it's known as the Software Centre; Fedora calls it simply Software and in Puppy, it's called Quickpet.

The command du -sk /usr /home /var sort -n will tell you how large those directory trees are.

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There is no facility to change the installation structure. They are hard-coded in the installation packages. What you can do is find a way to increase the size of your root partition. You can do this if you boot with your Ubuntu installation CD.

If you can provide the output of the command

we might be able to help on how to resize.

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The installation path is a standard location and cannot be changed. If you have another drive that has space, you can move any amount of your files to that drive by mounting your big directories at partitions on that drive (this is easiest to do when you are first installing Ubuntu). It's usually a good idea to move your /home directory to a different partition/drive rather than trying to move your OS files.

Detailed instructions can be found here:https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving

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Update - I'm on Fedora 25 now but the issue is still unsolved.

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I have Fedora 25 Workstation on my laptop. The internet access is through proxy server only.

I have successfully configured proxy settings for dnf and wget. I can install and updates packages using dnf from terminal. wget and firefox also work.

But Gnome Software Center and curl do not work. Everytime I try to install something from software center, I get the error

Curl error (7): Couldn't connect to server for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-24&arch=x86_64 [Failed to connect to mirrors.fedoraproject.org port 443: Connection refused]

What I have tried so far:

1 : Set proxy settings using dconf-editor(Source)

2 : Manually add proxy info to /etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf(Source1)(Source2)

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3 : Add proxy info to ~/.bash_profile, ~/.curlrc, /etc/profile(Source)

None of these have worked.

How do I get Gnome Software Center working?

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You could try working around this by adding proxy=.. after every single metalink= line in /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo. I haven't tested this, but these are only config files which the PackageKit daemon will accept proxy settings from. Support for setting a proxy in /etc/PackageKit has been removed.

What's supposed to happen, is the PackageKit client sets a proxy. With pkcon (console command) this is based on environment variables; with GNOME Software, it is based on the GNOME proxy setting. I think neither of these work correctly at the moment though:

In a corporate environment, with proxy only web access, I configure through the GUI the HTTP, HTTPS and FTP proxy.

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When I use 'Software', nothing happens. I can browse the catalog, but install does not work.

If I use 'pkcon' from command-line, I get an error:

'dnf' works, and the environment is correctly set.

If I unset in the shell all proxy, pkcon tries to download, but fails, obviously.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): I'm using latest PackageKit on F24 : 1.1.1-3.fc24

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Just updated to F25 final, still the same bug.

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