Re: A couple of general Debian questions

[Dan Griswold <dangriswold@earthlink.net>]

Kent West <westk@nicanor.acu.edu> writes:

> When I find that I'm out of space, here's what I usually do.
> 
> Instead of using dselect, I use apt-get. It generally wants to pull
> fewer packages down. If it all fits, great. After they install, I
> "sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb" to free up disk space, and
> then run dselect to finish installing the rest of the stuff.
> 

Kent's answer is good. I would recommend, however, using apt-get clean
or apt-get autoclean instead of the rm command he used. See the
apt-get man page for details.

Dan
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