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gnlehcar
December 10th, 2008, 11:43 AM
Dear all,

I am a new Ubuntu user and I have installed Ubuntu using a virtual box..
I give 4GB for Ubuntu to run..
However, I keep on updating and now it is fully utilized, and I cannot install anything now..
I would like to uninstall all the packages installed before, so that I can start all over again without installing Ubuntu again since it takes time..

I have tried "apt-get remove *" and it gives me the following error:
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Unable to write mmap - msync (28 No space left on device)
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

I really got no idea for this...><"
May anyone help me?? Thanks a lot!!

ibutho
December 10th, 2008, 11:51 AM
Try running

sudo apt-get clean