On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 12:48:37AM +1100, Mike Lake wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 11:41:31AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:34:53PM +1100, Mike Lake wrote:
> > > I am trying to do a dist-upgrade from potato to woody but dont have enough
> > > space in /var for the deb archives (have 70Meg need 120 Meg). As gnome is
> > > big and I dont actually use it I though I would remove that which would free
> > > up lots of space and those updates for gnome would not get downloaded.
> > > But when I ask the system to remove gnome (guessing that I remove gnome-core
> > gnome-core just contains the core set of gnome applications.
> > Generally if you want to remove a big sub-system, picking on of the
> > dependant libraries is a better choice. I'd suggest trying libgnome (or
> > libgnome32).
>
> Thanks. Tried libgnome but that didnt work but libgnome32 goes OK
> ibut with "apt-get remoe libgnome32" I get the errors below.
> I have tried apt-get update again and it goes fine with no
> errors. I tried the --fix-missing but get these. Have repeated
> this and get same error. How to I get around this size mismatch?
>
> apt-get --fix-missing remove libgnome32
>
Either:
apt-get clean
or
rm the files in /var/cache/apt/archives/ that are causing problems
and try again.
Cheers,
Anand
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