How to configure Ivy cache directory per-user or system-wide?

Question

I am using SBT as my build tool for building a Scala project.

My problem is, I can\'t configure SBT to download dependencies to my user home directory. Therefore I a

Answer 1

For editing the cache location during the SBT boot itself, see Sbt Launcher Configuration in the official documentation.

Basically, to get it to work system-wide, you'd have to:

• Put a configuration file named sbt.boot.properties somewhere where it's accessible system-wide (the default one is listed at the link above).
• Call the launcher with the additional system property sbt.boot.properties set to point to your configuration file.
• Set the cache-directory entry (in the [ivy] section) to the location of your ivy cache.

This configuration doesn't seem to carry over to normal SBT usage, though, unfortunately.