Freed rootfs from 38.5 megs free to 43.5 megs free by uninstalling several packages (mc and gnutar seemed the heaviest) ...
Starting h 6.55 , from Italy...
89.5 megs to download...
Upgrade done, device rebooted, new look for icons! Everything's nice and dandy by now.
'df -h /' reports now 47 megs free
Reinstalling those packages from repos and from ovi store...
All right. Too silky to be true...