Second System results of 8.04 LTS to 10.04.1 LTS Upgrade **MORE PROBLEMS**

[Colin Law]

On 16 January 2011 23:55, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> While my first system worked very well doing the upgrade from 8.04 LTS to
> 10.04.1 LTS. I have hit another snag and for the life of me I can't seem to
> get around it.
>
> The Upgrade attempts to download the packages and reports there is not
> enough space available and quits. It says to run "apt-get clean" to free up
> space. I did that and nothing happens. I have also gone though the installed
> packages and purged those that I know I do not need for the system in
> question. However that still did not yield enough space. Currently df shows
> the following information:
>
> /dev/sda1 3944620 1K blocks on the device 2848000 blocks used which leaves
> 897820 Available. The Update Manager wants some 1900MB more space!
>
> If I try to uninstall open-office (all of it, since I don't need it).
> Synaptic says that the ubuntu desktop and several other packages will be
> removed as well. Can I ignore those or will it cause serious problems?

I don't think it is as serious as it sounds and it should be ok to
uninstall OO.  Don't take me as authoritative on this however.  Can
someone more knowledgeable confirm this?

>
> The only other space on the physical drive is allocated to swap (it may be a
> bit large but I doubt that it is that big. Top reports swap to be 240932k
> total and currently shows 91840k free.

Swap should only actually be used rarely.  Are you short of RAM also?

>
> /home contains only 49420 blocks (as reported by du -s)
>
> How can I obtain the required amount of space?
> --

How big is your disk?  you really need a minimum of about 8Gig altogether.
If overall disk space is the issue you may be able to get away with a
re-install rather than an upgrade, but it sounds as if you may be
pushing the machine to the limit.  Perhaps it is time for a hardware
upgrade.

Colin