On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 17:21, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > CF wrote: > > Could be - can you do a > > rpm -i filename.rpm > > or a > > apt-get install packagename > > from the command line?
> With rpm? - only if the dependencies are installed, which is normal of > course, but I might have to install them 1 at a time manually if they > weren't cos urpmi and rpmdrake wont have many of them listed... > > With urpmi? - only if the dependencies are listed as well as the > selected rpm...if urpmi can find the rpm I want to install that doesn't > mean it can find the dependencies as well....if they're missing the > install will not complete...I can ignore dependency issues of course, > but then the app more than likely wont run... Sorry - I should have suggested urpmi. > With apt-get? - haven't managed to get Debian running that far, since > quite a few important system stuff will not install (only have console > but many 'standard' system commands missing too :-( ) My point is that these two have less memory usage than dselect and friends. Did you manage to get a console with either top or free running? or even cat /proc/meminfo ? Adding a swap file might be a short term solution, then you can delete it later (if you want) with no need to repartition.
