Considering updating to Gutsy Gibbon

[Derek Broughton]

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