Thanks for the advice to my earlier "Frozen, Potato or Woody?" post.
I've decided to take all of it. I ordered a 4-pack of Frozen CD's _and_, while they're enroute I'm going to get my feet wet with apt-get and potato. I've moved stuff around on my little 814Mb hard drive and made 208Mb available in /usr. Tomorrow, I plan to temporarily mount /var/cache/apt inside /usr and direct apt-get there. Question #1: Will 208Mb be enough? I ran 'apt-get update' and it built the tree. I ran 'apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade' and it showed unmet depenencies for w3m only. w3m needs three of the libraries coming with the upgrade. I forced 'apt-get --simulate -f dist-upgrade' and it ran with it, showing the 383 Upgrades, 63 new Installs, 30 Removals, and 14 Hold Backs it plans to do. _But_, apt-get didn't give me any idea of how much /var/apt/cache it needs to do its magic. Question #2: I think I've read here several times that apt-get can predict cache usage, but I've never seen a command or option to tell it to, and I can't find any in the man pages or docs. Is there? Question #3: I'm only downloading the i386 binaries, not the sources. But, even if 208Mb of cache is enough, is robbing /usr to pay /var an exercise in futility? In other words, is /usr going to simultaneously need that space that /var is borrowing, in order to recieve the 63 installs, have 383 of it's current packages Upgraded _and_ 30 of them Removed? Or, is there some capability built into apt that can choreograph all that? Thanks for the good advice already, hoping for more, montefin
