Not enough free disk space for upgrade

[Tony.B]

Hello. I've tried several times to upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10, but I always get the following message:

Not enough free disk space

The upgrade is now aborted. The upgrade needs a total of 1496M free space on disk '/'. Please free at least an additional 356M of disk space on '/'. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of former installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'

There is nothing in trash and I don't understand the instruction about removing temporary packages.

Can anybody help out please?

Thank & regards,
Tony

[kansasnoob]

Please post the full ouput from terminal of:

df -H

[brujoand]

if you go to Applications -> Assesories -> Terminal

And type in

 df -h

what results do you get?

(like kansasnoob said )

[Tony.B]

Hello kansasnoob

I'm sorry I haven't the faintest idea what your message means.

[brujoand]

Tony, if you read my post, i tell you exactly how to do it

[kansasnoob]

Just curious how 9.04 is working for you?

[Tony.B]

Yes, GrimmVarg, you DID tell me EXACTLY how to do it. Thank You
And, kansasnoob, I find 9.04 really good. It's my first encounter with Ubuntu, and I certainly wouldn't ever again pay extra for a Windows-loaded computer.

OK here is what happened when in typed in "df -h":-

filesystem size used avail use% mounted on
/host/ubuntu/disks/root-disk
4.6G 3.3G 1.1G 76%
tmpfs 497M 0 497M 0% /lib/inst/rw
varrun 497M 116K 497M 1% /var/run
varlock 497M 0 497M 0% /var/lock
udev 497M 152K 497M 1% /dev
tmpfs 497M 84K 497M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda2 32G 25G 6.8G 79% /host
lrm 497M 2.2M 495M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.28-16-generic/volatile
tony@ubuntu:~$

I typed all this in pretty columns, but I see when I previewed my work that the system doesn't follow my layout. I hope it's not too confusing.

Does any of this help?
Cheers,
Tony

[konqueror7]

try clearing up your apt-cache, open a terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and input the following,

sudo apt-get autoclean && sudo apt-get clean

you may also try the alternate disc, at least it won't download that much anymore space...

[Tony.B]

Hello konqueror7.

I typed in "sudo apt-get autoclean && sudo apt-get clean"
- and I got a message reading as follows:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Del google-chrome-unstable 4.0.222.5-r28804 [11.9MB]
Del google-chrome-unstable 4.0.223.11-r29900 [11.9MB]
tony@ubuntu:~$

But I didn't understand the second part of your advice. What's an alternate disc?

Thanks,
Tony

[konqueror7]

Hello konqueror7.

I typed in "sudo apt-get autoclean && sudo apt-get clean"
- and I got a message reading as follows:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Del google-chrome-unstable 4.0.222.5-r28804 [11.9MB]
Del google-chrome-unstable 4.0.223.11-r29900 [11.9MB]
tony@ubuntu:~$

But I didn't understand the second part of your advice. What's an alternate disc?

Thanks,
Tony

seems only a few MB were in your cache. upgrading using the alternate disk is much easier since it is intended for computers without an internet connection. however, in your case, it can be used instead as a source (if your write the disk). this will save you more space as compared to downloading all update files on your harddisk, because all the data are in the CDROM.