Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?
I've been banging my head against the wall trying to compile OpenSSL
clients on my Jessie laptop (see my recent posting titled "Can't link to
OpenSSL on my laptop). I've decided to upgrade it to Stretch like my
desktop machine, which compiles these programs successfully. However,
"sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" shows the message:
E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/.
apt-get autoclean doesn't help; neither does apt-get clean. When I
tried apt-get autoremove, the upgrade started, but at 99% completion it
threw the message:
Error writing to output file - write (28: No space left on device)
Sure enough, / is full, with all the fun that that entails.
Is Jessie's default partitioning insufficient for Stretch, or have I
somehow filled up / with extraneous junk? Would I be better off backing
up /home, wiping the disk (e.g. with cfdisk) and starting from scratch?
(Probably - I should probably split /var into a separate partition
anyway.)
After this experience, I'm gun-shy about upgrading a system in place.
BTW is it ok to sudo apt-get, or should I su root and run it from an
actual root prompt?
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cgibbs@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
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