[plug] Trying to install KDE on Debian

[shayne at guild.murdoch.edu.au]

It means pretty much what it says. Apt/dpkg stores backups of deb files to avoid
bombing the net everytime a deb file is needed (Ie if you apt-get remove widget,
and you still have the widget deb file, next time you apt-get install widget,
it'll use the local one rather than sucking 5meg over your modem).

If this gets fullup ,I believe you can nuke the contents of that directory to
free space for more. This makes sense particularly if you have the CD's so
bandwidth aint a concern. 

However , before doing that, can anyone else confirm this. (Oh btw , beware of
some bad packages with the KDE install, I had some awfull probs before with
busted conflicting packages. It's probly not the case with the CD install)

Quoting James Elliott <James.Elliott at wn.com.au>:

> I have successfully installed Debian 3.0 and also the X-windows system
> by
> using apt-get install .....
> 
> However, when I try apt-get install kde it stars off okay and then
> comes
> back with the error message:
> 
> "Sorry, you don't have enough free space in
> /var/cache/apt/archives/
> to hold all the debs"
> 
> FIRSTLY
> is "kde" what I should be trying to install or does it go by another
> name?
> I presume that KDE is on one of the 7 installation diskettes?
> 
> SECONDLY
> if the pat-get install kde command is correct, what does the above
> error
> message mean?
> 
> Love to hear from you ...... kind regards,
> 
> James Elliott
> 
> 
>