Re: don't have enough free space

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Gruessle wrote:

> Hi,
> This is my first post and help call :)
>
> I just installed Debian
> I did exit without installing any packages - had to install it 3 times and didn't want to risk another glitch while installing
> packages.
>
> Anyway the basic system seams to work now, but I have following problem
>
> 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?
>
> How do I fix this?
> _
>
> Gruessle
>
>
>  
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.

--
Kent