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Nixmix 2010-02-16 16:53

Re: Tried to free root space, now can't uninstall programs
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Rob1n (Post 529920)
The command you need is the same one I gave above:
Code:

ln -s /home/var/cache/apt/archives /var/cache/apt/archives

tried that but still getting the not enough room in target location, however at least I can now uninstall apps :)

mrmoosehead 2010-02-16 16:54

Re: Tried to free root space, now can't uninstall programs
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Bratag (Post 529934)
Just be aware if you make these changes - you will need to do them again after the upgrade - it doesn't honour the symlinks when doing the install - which makes sense I guess.

Good job you pointed that out. Does make sense, but would have been an easy mistake to make.
:s

seriouser 2010-02-16 16:54

Re: Tried to free root space, now can't uninstall programs
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Bratag (Post 529934)
Just be aware if you make these changes - you will need to do them again after the upgrade - it doesn't honour the symlinks when doing the install - which makes sense I guess.

So how would I change back to the factory settings after following the guide? The same process in reverse?

I only want to free enough root space to update the OS and now I only have about 23 MB free.

Nixmix 2010-02-16 16:58

Re: Tried to free root space, now can't uninstall programs
 
FYI I have 31mb free on rootfts,surely that is enough?

Bratag 2010-02-16 17:03

Re: Tried to free root space, now can't uninstall programs
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by seriouser (Post 529939)
So how would I change back to the factory settings after following the guide? The same process in reverse?

I only want to free enough root space to update the OS and now I only have about 23 MB free.

After the update you will be back to factory settings. I guess what i was saying is if after the update you want the extra space still - then you need to follow these instructions again.

seriouser 2010-02-16 17:05

Re: Tried to free root space, now can't uninstall programs
 
So I tried

mv /home/var/cache/apt/archives /var/cache/apt/archives


but it gives an error message.

"mv: cannot rename '/home/var/cache/apt/archives': Invalid argument"

I'm looking to undo whatever I did by following the link on the first post http://www.nokiausers.net/forum/noki...ix-inside.html

seriouser 2010-02-16 17:07

Re: Tried to free root space, now can't uninstall programs
 
Even after having done all the things in this thread I still have only 23.4M free ( I checked with df -h ) I thought this process was supposed to free up some space?

Nixmix 2010-02-16 17:11

Re: Tried to free root space, now can't uninstall programs
 
woohooo!
disabling extras devel in applications catalog fixed it for me

seriouser 2010-02-16 17:20

Re: Tried to free root space, now can't uninstall programs
 
I've now got 39.5M and it's still not enough. I already disabled extras-testing.

StOoZ 2010-02-16 17:23

Re: Tried to free root space, now can't uninstall programs
 
Well i tried almost anything but to no avail,the best solution is to reflash,thats what i did


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