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Solving a Problem with Version Upgrade v. 8 to v. 9

I ran into a problem upgrading from Mageia v. 8 to v. 9 and figured I'd tell what happened in case it helps someone else.

I saw in another thread here that v. 9 was released. I logged out of Fluxbox and into Plasma and, sure enough, the mga-applet notified me that a version upgrade was available. I clicked the applet to upgrade, all the packages downloaded, and the upgrade failed. I tried again with the same result.

Then I ran

Code:

urpmi --auto-update

It found all the downloaded package files and also failed, but it gave a useful error message. There was not enough free space on the root partition to run the upgrade (I use a separate /home.)

I freed some space by deleting /var/log/*.gz, as I was sure I'd have no use for the old archived log files. I opened drakconf and nosed around a bit, then it came to me. I removed Libreoffice. It's such a big package that it freed up enough space and I was able to complete the upgrade. (As an aside, I quite like LO, but I haven't needed to use an office suite in months.)

Code:

cat /etc/*release* 

LSB_VERSION= 

DISTRIB_ID="Mageia" 

DISTRIB_RELEASE=9 

DISTRIB_CODENAME=mga9 

DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Mageia 9"

Here's another monster:

Code:

> ls -gGh kernel-firmware-nonfree-20230814-1.mga9.nonfree.noarch.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 257M Aug 19 14:42 kernel-firmware-nonfree-20230814-1.mga9.nonfree.noarch.rpm

>

Installed size is 647M, over 7X the "installed size" (rpm -qi) of one recent kernel. Other distros have taken to splitting up kernel-firmware into multiple packages. e.g. on Fedora there are at least:

Code:

> ls -Ggh *ware*rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 3.5M May 19 17:44 alsa-sof-firmware-2.2.5-1.fc38.noarch.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1  19M Sep 19 19:21 amd-gpu-firmware-20230919-1.fc38.noarch.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 8.8M Sep 19 19:21 intel-gpu-firmware-20230919-1.fc38.noarch.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1  54M Sep 19 19:21 linux-firmware-20230919-1.fc38.noarch.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1  48K Sep 19 19:21 linux-firmware-whence-20230919-1.fc38.noarch.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 1.3M Sep 19 19:21 nvidia-gpu-firmware-20230919-1.fc38.noarch.rpm

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plus a multitude of packages for networking hardware.