Considering updating to Gutsy Gibbon
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Nov 16 00:47:50 UTC 2007
Paul S wrote:
> bill purvis said the following on 11/15/2007 10:25 AM:
>> I decided today that I would upgrade to 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon), but when I
>> started running the upgrade script it moaned that I didn't have enough
>> space in /var. I had manually allocated space when I installed 7.04
>
> the installer wants to download all the packages before updating any,
> and they are all to be stored in /var/cache/apt/archives. You may free
> up some space by deleting any feisty packages already there (sudo rm
> /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb) to help some.
Ack! Please don't do that. "sudo aptitude clean" will do it _cleanly_.
--
derek
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