Re: tasksel and me
At 16:51 -0500 12/5/03, Ben Collins wrote: What is going on here? Is it trying to install some 1GB worth of files... and in /var/cache/apt/archives/ of all places? Why? I have a nicely sized /usr but my /var is 128MB. Try this: cp -a /var/cache/apt /usr/local/apt ln -s /usr/local/apt /var/cache/apt Thanks for the suggestion. However, what I ended up doing was to just make /var 512MB: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 379271 28451331239 8% / /dev/sda148586 1342 44735 3% /boot /dev/sda4 2554532922820 1501948 39% /usr /dev/sda5 507440313768167473 66% /var /dev/sda6 67553236641180 1% /home [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ This way it should not annoy me for quite a while =) So, after that I was finally able to use tasksel and install quite a few packages. I guess the next step is to actually start using the machine (my second linux box ever; my first one was a Mac SE/30 I installed linux on just to say I could; the next day it was bagged and boxed and forgotten. This IPX, however, will be seeing some action).
Re: tasksel and me
Mauricio wrote: Need to get 373MB of archives. After unpacking 1060MB will be used. E: Sorry, you don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/ to hold all the .debs. What is going on here? Is it trying to install some 1GB worth of files... and in /var/cache/apt/archives/ of all places? Why? I have a nicely sized /usr but my /var is 128MB. Why? Because that's what it does. If it's not big enough, the easiest thing to do is create a directory somewhere else and symlink to it under your /var partition.
Re: tasksel and me
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 04:11:07PM -0500, Mauricio wrote: What is going on here? Is it trying to install some 1GB worth of files... and in /var/cache/apt/archives/ of all places? Why? I have a nicely sized /usr but my /var is 128MB. Apt is downloading the .deb's first and stores them under /var and installs them from there. There must be enough space there so it can do that (i.e. store the compressed .deb files). After installation is done you may clean out the cache directory by running 'apt-get clean'. However, it's probably best if you re-partition your hard-drive so /var is bigger. That's also where all the log-files go, so space-consumption in /var usually increases when the system is being used. So unless you expect nearly no logging activity on the system, 128 MB won't be enough most likely. Alternatively, as someone pointed out already, could also symlink /var/cache/apt to solve your immediate problem, but I'm pretty sure that you'll run into more trouble on /var over time. I also suggest you post your current partition-layout so people might comment on it and give some hints. Regards, Markus
Re: tasksel and me
What is going on here? Is it trying to install some 1GB worth of files... and in /var/cache/apt/archives/ of all places? Why? I have a nicely sized /usr but my /var is 128MB. Try this: cp -a /var/cache/apt /usr/local/apt ln -s /usr/local/apt /var/cache/apt -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/
