Thread: [HOWTO] Freeing up rootfs space
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rewt is offline rewt
2010-01-13 , 20:25
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#23
Originally Posted by mece View Post
2. Reinstall python

This one is a bit more work, but gives you around 20Mb.
If you installed a python application (for example FM Radio, Quicknote, Witter) before python was optified, you need to reinstall python.
Not necessary - just use apt-get to install the pymaemo-optify package, from extras. Removing and installing is doing just that, but the long way.

If you had python installed prior to pymaemo-optify existing, it's likely that if you try to do an 'apt-get upgrade' python is held back. The reason for this is that python now depends on pymaemo-optify, but apt-get upgrade won't install new packages so it is ignored. If you have done an apt-get dist-upgrade since the release of pymaemo-optify, it would have automatically been installed because of the dependency, and your python install will already be optified.

(WARNING: Don't attempt apt-get dist-upgrade unless you really, really, really know what you are doing)
 

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