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You can't get Gutsy with only 602 MB of free disk space

Posted by Steven_Rosenber on · 1 comment
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I figured I would try to upgrade my Xubuntu 7.04 Feisty setup on the converted Maxspeed Maxterm thin client to Gutsy 7.10. It's no secret that Xubuntu has, in its short life (6.06 was its first release, I believe) never been as polished -- nor has it received as much polishing attention -- as the flagship Ubuntu. But for older hardware, Xubuntu can mean the difference between a good 'Buntu experience and the other kind.

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I have had this problem a number of times and solved it permanently as follows (as root):

1) Find another partition which DOES have enough space (without this you are screwed). Let us call a subdirectory you create there NEWDIRECTORY

2) cp -R /var/cache/apt NEWDIRECTORY 3) unalias rm 4) rm -R /var/cache/apt 5) ln -s NEWDIRECTORY /var/cache/apt

then you are set.....

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