Lisi wrote: > Have just realised that I can't do this yet because I haven't yet solved the > problem of installing it!! I am not sure how important this particular program is but I think it will help. Since it is really just a single binary program you can go through and grab a copy of it manually. It has a few manual steps but isn't that hard. Since you have space in /home you can do this. You very likely have the things needed such as 'ar', 'tar', and the libx11-6, libxaw7, libxt6 libraries already installed. Go to this URL: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xdu Download the package to your home directory for your architecture. I will assume i386 for now. You will have this file: -rw-rw-r-- 1 15908 Sep 20 14:48 xdu_3.0-17_i386.deb You can unpack that using dpkg-source but that is in the dpkg-dev package and you might not have it. However debs are simply 'ar' achive files and you almost certainly already have ar available since it is required by many, many other packages. $ ar t xdu_3.0-17_i386.deb debian-binary control.tar.gz data.tar.gz There are three files in the archive. You want the data.tar.gz file from it. $ ar xv xdu_3.0-17_i386.deb data.tar.gz x - data.tar.gz $ tar tvzf data.tar.gz | grep bin/xdu -rwxr-xr-x root/root 15996 2006-10-08 04:27 ./usr/bin/xdu $ tar xzvf data.tar.gz ./usr/bin/xdu ./usr/bin/xdu That extracted the program to the current directory and created the usr and bin directories under it. Those are extra for our purposes so lets clean those up. Let's put this in your $HOME/bin directory. I assume you already have one of those. If not then make it. $ mkdir ~/bin $ mv usr/bin/xdu ~/bin/ Then clean up. $ rmdir usr/bin usr $ rm data.tar.gz At this point the program should run for you. (Unless you are missing a library.) If ~/bin is already in your PATH then you don't need to do anything special. If not then for the moment just call it from there. $ ~/bin/xdu /home/du-xk.out Also, I should note that it is important to run the du as root so that it actually has access to all of the directories. # du -xk / | tee /home/du-xk.out After you clean up your disk space I would install xdu as a package. Then clean up your ~/bin/xdu version as a final step since you won't need it anymore. Good luck! Bob
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