Comment 7 for bug 9459

I have a 2.2GByte disk and had this problem. It turned out that /var/cache/apt had about 300MBytes of cached
downloads in it. After manually deleting these, I had enough free space to work. Still, for someone new to
Linux this would be a problem. Kynaptic/Synaptic should have a means of clearing the cache in any case (I'm
using KUbuntu), even better would be some sort of 'cleanup utility' that could be run if you are short of space
and deletes all known files that are not strictly necessary.