apt-get dist-upgrade

[Colin Law]

On 3 August 2012 04:05, Peter Thomas <peter at hackertarget.com> wrote:
> The new opera package will replace the existing one and it is 1,940kb
> bigger than the previous version.

In fact the text is a bit misleading as the total additional disk
space used will also include that for the downloaded packages (12.8MB)
in this case as these are by default cached in case they are needed
again.  If space is critical however this can be released by using
sudo apt-get clean

Colin

>
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Kaushal Shriyan
> <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> Calculating upgrade... Done
>> The following packages will be upgraded:
>>   opera
>> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>> Need to get 12.8 MB of archives.
>> After this operation, 1,940 kB of additional disk space will be used.
>> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
>> Get:1 http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable/non-free opera i386
>> 12.01.1532 [12.8 MB]
>> 95% [1 opera 12.2 MB/12.8 MB 95%]
>> kaushal at kaushal-laptop:~$
>>
>> Not sure i understand about this two line "Need to get 12.8 MB of
>> archives. After this operation, 1,940 kB of additional disk space will
>> be used."
>> Can someone please explain?
>>
>
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>
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