On 7/21/07, sagr <alug1@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.