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Originally Posted by mscion View Post
I tried to install calibre using synaptic but
it failed. I ran "dpkg ---configure -a" to fix problem. oddly, I get the error

dpkg: failed to write status record about "maxima" to '/var/lib/dpkg/status': No space left on device

When I do a df it appears that there is plenty of space.
So my question is, as I'm concerned about removing files that should
not be touched, where are some good places to look to
remove files to clear space for this installation?
Have you done "apt-get clean" yet? Once everything has been unpacked, you can clean apt's cache and continue with configuring. See also my installation log (link in my signature) for how to make more space by moving things to /home/user.
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