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[ILUG] puzzle

[ILUG] puzzle

Ian O'Connell ianoc=ilug at maths.tcd.ie
Wed Oct 25 11:05:25 IST 2006


On 25/10/06, Andres Jimenez <gandresin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you use a different partition or logical volume for /var ?
>
> If you don't, apt-get can fail just because there is no free space
> enough for saving a local copy of those .deb files in
> /var/cache/apt/archives.
> Run    apt-get clean
> and try again . Hopefully you will have enough free space now to to the upgrade


As mention'd by Andres i'd try an apt-get clean, apt normally in my
experence keeps copies of old debs around incase you want to down
grade, so cleaning these out tends to be necessary.

-- 


Ian.



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