on Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 03:43:48PM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Gruessle wrote:
> > I ran tasksel from the shell prompt and selected one program but it
> > exits with following error:
> >
> > E: Sorry, you don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives to
> > hold all packages.
> >
> > I have 3 partions on my drive of a total 7.5 GB
> > Could it be that it only uses 2 partions?
> Each partition holds a different segment of the system (assuming
> you've set up your box that way; otherwise you may have everything on
> one partition and nothing on the other two). What matters is the free
> space available on the partition where your /var/cache/apt/archives
> is. You might want to do a:
>
> df -h
>
> and/or a
>
> df -h /var/cache/apt/archives
>
> to see what's available where. If the "Avail" column is smaller than
> what you're trying to download, you'll have to do some tweaking.
Addition:
- Posting output of the above commands would be helpful.
- Your system updates are stored in /var. I find that the partition
/var is on should be at least 500 MiB, and preferably 1+ GiB for a
typical Debian installation.
- I have a set of partitioning recommendations you might wish to look
at:
http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/NixPartitioning
- If you're pinched for space, you can run 'apt-get dist-upgrade
--no-download' to install packages from your currently available
cache. Repeated iterations of:
apt-get autoclean # clears out extraneous packages.
apt-get update
apt-get -du dist-upgrade
apt-get --no-download -u dist-upgrade
...may be able to walk you through a small /var (or large update)
situation. Though it can take a while...
- You can also extend your archive space, in a pinch, by creating a
symlink to a larger partition. Say you've only got 250 MiB on /var
and a 5 GiB /home. Create, say, /home/admin, and under that:
links/var/cache/apt. Copy your existing /var/cache/apt to this
location, then:
rm -rf /var/cache/apt
ln -s /home/admin/links/var/cache/apt /var/cache/apt
...exercising the flexibility of GNU/Linux.
Peace.
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