David J Kanter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DJK> When attempting to upgrade, in pieces, from Slink to Potato, I DJK> got this error message when typing apt-get dist-upgrade: DJK> DJK> E: Sorry, you don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/ DJK> DJK> Do I have too small a partition, is that the problem? What can I DJK> do to fix this?
That could be part of the problem, yeah; the first time I installed Debian I only put 30MB in /var and learned to regret that pretty quickly. Possible options include: -- Run 'apt-get clean', if you haven't, to get rid of stale package files you don't really need. -- 'apt-get install' particular packages out of unstable; this will download all of their dependencies as well. -- Symbolically link a directory on a larger partition to /var/cache/apt/archives. -- Mount a bigger/different disk on /var/cache/apt/archives. -- Repartition so you have a bigger /var (bleah!). The third option here is probably the easiest and most likely to be productive. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
