On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 03:37:06AM -0800, tluxt wrote: > I then started KDE & web browsed, that worked fine. > I checked my df & had about 280MB free -snip- > > I then did > apt-get install kde > It said > 0 packages upgraded, 53 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded. > Need to get 17.0MB of archives. After unpacking 52.8MB will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y > > I think this process had some problem I can't recall. > > I think I then continued again, > and here is where I got the error msg about being out of space, which > should not have occurred since the estimated size was well below the > available size.
The 52.8MB used isn't the total actually required to complete the operation but I am not completely familiar with how dpkg installs packages. At a minimum you need the space for all the packages (the 53 debs) it downloads plus the space listed to install (52.8MB). I am not sure if you need double the space that the packages take unpacked or if dpkg just overwrites on install. I think that 280MB should have been enough free space though. 8) Chris
