22 Aug
2017
22 Aug
'17
2:06 p.m.
I use aptitude as a package manager.
I'm running out of disk space.
aptitude doesn't show anything needing to be removed.
apt-get -s auto-remove shows just about every package in this range and
offers to remove them
linux-image-4.4.0-10-generic to linux-image-4.4.0-89-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-10-generic to inux-headers-4.4.0-89-generic
In total there is 146 files (about 2GB) that apt-get would delete.
An attempt to remove with aptitude shows nothing to remove
sudo aptitude -s -oAptitude::Delete-Unused=1 install
Check with aptitude as to why they are installed and all of them gives the
same answer.
aptitude why linux-image-4.4.0-15-generic
i A linux-image-4.4.0-15-generic Provides zfs-dkms
So is it safe to get rid of these files with apt-get auto-remove or will it
mess up aptitude?
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22 Aug
22 Aug
2:49 p.m.
On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 4:06:37 AM AEST stripes theotoky via luv-main
wrote:
I use aptitude as a package manager.
I'm running out of disk space.
How much disk space is in use and how much do you have? Hard drives keep
getting bigger, nowadays it's hard to give away disks smaller than 500G. A
large Debian installation is around 6G.
apt-get -s auto-remove shows just about every package
in this range and
offers to remove them
linux-image-4.4.0-10-generic to linux-image-4.4.0-89-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-10-generic to inux-headers-4.4.0-89-generic
In total there is 146 files (about 2GB) that apt-get would delete.
An attempt to remove with aptitude shows nothing to remove
sudo aptitude -s -oAptitude::Delete-Unused=1 install
Check with aptitude as to why they are installed and all of them gives the
same answer.
aptitude why linux-image-4.4.0-15-generic
i A linux-image-4.4.0-15-generic Provides zfs-dkms
So is it safe to get rid of these files with apt-get auto-remove or will it
mess up aptitude?
Well if you remove all kernels you are probably going to have a problem. But
if you remove all but the most recent then it will probably be ok. Which is
it doing?
I'm running Debian/Unstable on my laptop and due to some issues of
dependencies etc "apt-get autoremove" wants to remove many KDE packages right
now which isn't what I want. Also due to conflicts it wants to remove them if
I run "apt-get dist-upgrade". This sort of thing sometimes happens in
Unstable when libraries are being updated, so I just have to not upgrade my
laptop until all the necessary packages are rebuilt to depend on new
libraries. It's the sort of thing that happens when you run Unstable.
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23 Aug
23 Aug
11:32 a.m.
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 02:49:34PM +1000, russell(a)coker.com.au wrote:
On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 4:06:37 AM AEST stripes
theotoky via luv-main
wrote:
It could be apt-get's download cache taking up a lot of disk space. It
doesn't clear out downloaded files unless you tell it to. AFAICT from the man
page, the same is true for aptitude - not surprising, they both use the same
download cache dir to download .deb files to.
try 'du -sch /var/cache/apt/archives'
and if there's a lot of files in there, run 'apt-get clean'
'aptitude clean' will also work.
I use aptitude as a package manager. I'm
running out of disk space.
How much disk space is in use and how much do you have? Hard drives keep
getting bigger, nowadays it's hard to give away disks smaller than 500G. A
large Debian installation is around 6G. Well if you remove all kernels you are probably going
to have a problem.
But if you remove all but the most recent then it will probably be ok.
Which is it doing?
it's safe to remove all linux-image-* and linux-header-* packages except
for the currently running kernel, which may or may not be the latest kernel
package installed (depending on whether you've rebooted or not since upgrading
it).
apt-get (actually, dpkg IIRC) will warn you if you try to uninstall the
currently running kernel. If your running kernel was auto-installed due
to a dependancy, mark it as manually installed with 'apt-mark manual
linux-image-VERSION', so that it doesn't get removed if you run 'apt-get
autoremove'
I'm running Debian/Unstable on my laptop and due
to some issues of
dependencies etc "apt-get autoremove" wants to remove many KDE packages
right now which isn't what I want. Also due to conflicts it wants to remove
them if I run "apt-get dist-upgrade". This sort of thing sometimes happens
in Unstable when libraries are being updated, so I just have to not upgrade
my laptop until all the necessary packages are rebuilt to depend on new
libraries. It's the sort of thing that happens when you run Unstable.
apt-get upgrade is useful in that situation - it only upgrades packages
that WON'T require another package to be removed.
marking packages as held is also useful. I used to use my own script
'dpkg-hold' for this but 'apt-mark' (which didn't exist when i write
dpkg-hold) works better.
craig
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1:51 p.m.
On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 11:32:27 AM AEST Craig Sanders via luv-main
wrote:
Thanks for that tip.
Well if you
remove all kernels you are probably going to have a problem.
But if you remove all but the most recent then it will probably be ok.
Which is it doing?
it's safe to remove all linux-image-* and linux-header-* packages except
for the currently running kernel, which may or may not be the latest kernel
package installed (depending on whether you've rebooted or not since
upgrading it).
apt-get (actually, dpkg IIRC) will warn you if you try to uninstall the
currently running kernel. If your running kernel was auto-installed due
to a dependancy, mark it as manually installed with 'apt-mark manual
linux-image-VERSION', so that it doesn't get removed if you run 'apt-get
autoremove' From a discussion off-list we determined that the OP
had apt-get working as
desired in that regard, it wanted to remove old kernels and
wasn't going to
touch the one that was running. This is as expected.
I'm
running Debian/Unstable on my laptop and due to some issues of
dependencies etc "apt-get autoremove" wants to remove many KDE packages
right now which isn't what I want. Also due to conflicts it wants to
remove them if I run "apt-get dist-upgrade". This sort of thing
sometimes happens in Unstable when libraries are being updated, so I just
have to not upgrade my laptop until all the necessary packages are
rebuilt to depend on new libraries. It's the sort of thing that happens
when you run Unstable.
apt-get upgrade is useful in that situation - it only
upgrades packages
that WON'T require another package to be removed. marking packages as held is also useful. I used to
use my own script
'dpkg-hold' for this but 'apt-mark' (which didn't exist when i write
dpkg-hold) works better.
My latest thing is to build some custom packages for this. I have packages
etbe-mon, etbe-kvm, etbe-desktop, and etbe-base. This aren't packages I'm
ever going to support (but I may make them available on a private apt
repository and people will have the ability to use them if they wish) and
definitely not suitable for uploading to Debian. But it makes it handy to
suck all dependencies in on install and keep them installed.
This isn't for everyone, but it's not THAT hard to do either.
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