On 28 March 2012 23:29, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mi, 28 mar 12, 22:49:00, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> Is it possible to upgrade to wheezy from squeeze with only 670.9mb >> available in my /usr partition please? > > There's not enough info to tell. For a (very) slim system it would be > more than enough[1], but depending on what applications you have (and > want to keep) installed it might not be sufficient.
I use Gnome and some portions of KDE [kmail, knode, etc], kmymoney, and libreoffice [from source]. > > [1] I have a system with LXDE, XBMC and a few other things occupying > only 1.3 GB in total. > > During the upgrade a significant amount of space is required under /var > (specifically /var/cache/apt/ ), but if /var is also small there are > several options available. > /var is 3.6gb free and is a separate partition. > What can cause problems in your situation is the size increase of the > applications from one version to another. One approach would be to use > dpigs (package debian-goodies) and then check the difference in > Installed-Size of the bigger packages. A possible solution would be to > consider slimmer alternatives for some of them. dpigs? So I install 'dpigs' under squeeze and then see what the size is under wheezy? Is that right? > >> Or do I need to repartition and reinstall squeeze and then upgrade to >> wheezy? > > It's also possible to install wheezy directly, without going through > squeeze. > I've got squeeze operating now, so a direct install of wheezy isn't possible. > Hope this helps, > Andrei Thanks Andrei, food for thought there. Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk/taste/index.html efever = http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ efever = http://sharon04.livejournal.com/ Debian 6,0.4, Gnome 1:2.30+7, LibreOffice 3.5.0 Registered Linux user 334501 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAM9u--dfiftiNym1b-pPMUBG5HxqseHPWoWpRAfx=xh6dhf...@mail.gmail.com
