try apt-get -d that tells apt to download ONLY and not to install.
nate On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: hanegr >On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 05:01:27PM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: hanegr >> No it's not safe for you to upgrade - not enough disk space. When I hanegr >> downloaded everything it was 155MB. You need to delete quite a few files hanegr >> from your root file system. hanegr > hanegr >I had this problem too. Why isn't there an option for apt to let it hanegr >download the deb for a package only just before installing it? hanegr >That way, upgrading small systems would be a lot easier. hanegr > hanegr >Wouter. hanegr >-- hanegr >Linux daria 2.2.14 #1 Wed Jan 5 14:00:40 CET 2000 i586 unknown hanegr > 11:03am up 1:52, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 hanegr > hanegr > hanegr >-- hanegr >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null hanegr > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:11am up 154 days, 19:16, 2 users, load average: 1.82, 1.73, 1.76