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	Benson	2008-04-14 , 15:33
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Originally Posted by TA-t3

If you normally install through application manager then the apt-get clean is done automatically for you. I think the problematic cases are when you point your browser to a .deb and click it, one option is to 'install', if you do then it will download it to /tmp/ and tell the application manager to install from there. That can be a problem if /tmp gets full. (If you instead saves to file, then later install, you bypass that problem). I don't believe it's normal to run out of actual application space in the flash file system, most uses for booting off SD cards is to get more choice (e.g. KDE, or dual boot etc.)

Perhaps not normal, but fairly easy; there's a number of >10MB packages (Ghostscript, previously required for Xournal; Imagemagick; any number of games with large data files (Descent, Quake, ...)). While more packages these days permit installation of game files on MMC easily, it used to be (and still is for some) a hassle to relocate them manually. I've done this, at least.

One very helpful thing, by the way, when installing from a deb-on-the-web is to save it on the MMC in some directory (/media/mmc2/packages/), and install it from there; then leave it there. Now, should you want to reinstall, you don't have to hunt it down. And you can freely remove large packages to make space to try out something new if your root fs is getting near full; you can just reinstall from the SD later.

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