On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Clive Menzies wrote: > No doubt this is my ignorance at work but I'd appreciate some guidance.
I don't use fakeroot so I don't know whether it really works well. But my advice would be to su to root and try again. Otherwise run a df and make sure that you haven't accidentally filled up your filesystem. And if you have looking in (I think) /var/cache/apt would be a good place to start on the purging :-) Diana.