Hi Brian/Carol,
I feel your suffering. I installed slackware 3.5 on an 850 meg partition
and am fighting to keep 200 meg free.
You could just type pkgtool at a command prompt (as root) and see what you
have got installed and remove what you don't think you will need. That way
you can totally remove the package and reinstall if you discover that you
need it without too much damage. Not quite as friendly as redhats (when it
worked right) or debians (never seen it) package tools but functional.
Be very conciensious about what you are doing here. I am not 100% certain
you can't break something doing this but it is better than willy-nilly
deleting stuff.
You could start with kernel source (assuming you aren't planning on
configuring a new one) and most of the documents. Also,when you install
something (staroffice for instance) you can get rid of the untarred mess
that you made when you compiled it. Make install should have put everything
that was required where it needed to be the rest is useless.
Good luck,
Scott
Brian/Carol Lehr wrote:
> I dl the whole SW 3.5 package, and installed it on a 500 meg partition.
> After adding a few other items such as StarOffice, etc, I've only got 13
> megs of space left! I need more space. I even deleted all my Man pages
> just to get to the current 13 megs. Since I'm not programming (yet) but
> just learning how to use Linux, what files and programs can I safely
> delete? I can always get a CD later and add them back again. Thanks
> for the help.
>
> Brian
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