I think I'm running out of space on my laptop. The last time I got an "updates available" message, I got a further warning, during the update, that I was low on space. The update did seem to complete, though.
However, when I tried to use the calculator program dc afterwards, the computer just sat there. Below is the output from the df command. Thanks very much for any help! Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 330215 193394 119772 62% / udev 10240 0 10240 0% /dev tmpfs 400736 708 400028 1% /run /dev/disk/by-uuid/0923...36f4ab8e 330215 193394 119772 62% / tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock tmpfs 2457480 84 2457396 1% /run/shm /dev/sda10 176581224 2269620 165341776 2% /home /dev/sda9 376807 10272 347079 3% /tmp /dev/sda6 8649992 6057732 2152864 74% /usr /dev/sda7 2882592 1857652 878508 68% /var
