[ALUG] Ubuntu 7.04 apt-get error when installing packages

[Tim Green]

On 7/21/07, sagr <alug1 at suffolk-ancestor-genealogy-research.co.uk> wrote:
> I am wondering if it was simply my /var filesystem got full up during
> installation like MJR suggested (the hard disk I have installed it on is
> quite small (the / partition is only 3GB)).
>
> My PC starts and runs ok,
> and, indeed, if I had not tried to do an apt-get I would be completely
> unaware anything is wrong.  Unfortunately this PC is rather slow
> (300MHz) with only 128MB RAM and took ages (nearly 4 hours?) to install
> Ubuntu and I have been happily typing away extensively personalising it
> since then.  I am therefore a bit reluctant to reinstall everything from
> scratch.
>
> Although having a little bit of experience with Linux I haven't much of
> a clue about Debian/Ubuntu so am unsure of how serious my problem is.
>
> Any suggestions about the best way forward would be appreciated.

Do you have any more partitions apart from / and swap?

On my Ubuntu 7.04 system I'm using the following amounts of disk:
/bin 5MB
/boot 183MB
/etc 13MB
/lib 1766MB
/opt 80MB
/usr 2605MB
/var 454MB

total = 5106MB, or about 5GB

I think you're going to need a bigger disk. How much free space do you have? df

Tim.