Control: reassign -1 src:apt Control: severity -1 wishlist On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 1:00 PM mYnDstrEAm <myndstr...@protonmail.ch> wrote: > Thanks guys, these are very useful methods and I'll mention these as > alternatives to disk cleanups recommended at > https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/774199/233262 (this would probably very > useful to have at places about upgrades failing due to disk space issues even > though people only look these up once the problems already occurred). > > However, the problem of the upgrade requiring more disk space than displayed > at first remains and the command by Zeimetz can't be used with a built-in > rememberable well-known command like sudo apt-get upgrade --stepwise
Personally, I don't think a machine that has that limited storage ought to be upgraded using apt from one Debian stable release to another. I suggest upgrading the storage first. If that's not possible, I recommend replacing the OS with a new image of Debian rather than trying to use apt to upgrade a few packages at a time. As has already been mentioned, it is not supported to arbitrarily break apt updates up like that to upgrade from say Debian 12 to the not-yet-released Debian 13. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
