[Bug 222030] Re: Dist-Upgrade has free space problems

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 152580 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/152580

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 152580
   Necessary disk space to free keeps increasing

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Title:
  Dist-Upgrade has free space problems

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  During upgrade from 7.10 » 8.04, the update manager aborted:

  The upgrade needs a total of 961M free space on disk '/'. Please free
  at least an additional 422M of disk space on '/'.

  I freed the space, started again, and got the same error, this time
  demanding for 1400MB of space. I managed to free the space by deleting
  gimp, openoffice and eclipse - then I ran the update-manager again. It
  then stated:

  The upgrade needs a total of 2000M free space on disk '/'. Please free
  at least an additional 422M of disk space on '/'.

  This is ridiculous... (or is it because I freed space by deleting
  programs in ubuntu-desktop that have to be reinstalled and thus
  needing the space?)

  This differs from "sudo do-release-upgrade" which says: The upgrade needs a total of 1581M free space 
  on disk '/'. Please free at least an additional 7419k of disk space 
  on '/'. 

  I am installing via "do-release-upgrade" at the moment, but this might
  be bug in the update-manager.

  If you need more information, please step up. /var/log/messages | syslog does not contain an entry from this error. Any 
  update-manager: v0.81.3

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