how to free up 253 megs?
Linux infant here, advancing through crawl now after rolling around crying for awhile--just trying to set up my first desktop.
Fresh fedora 18 install on a 75 gig drive, partitions are set up as 5 gig swap, 5 gig root (was suggested to go with 4-8 for root) and the rest as home. Can't install wine due to insufficient space on root, and thats where the 253 megs comes from.
What I've done since installing: Kernal update and reboot
Installed for nvidia drivers the following: yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs
(yes kmod, akmod didn't work for me and I don't write my own kernal anyway so I'll just deal with reinstalling after updates)
Installed adobe reader
Installed vlc media
And thats it. Wine was too big. Oh, I removed the old kernal when I saw that both were still in there, rebooted, and it didn't help.
Suggestions? Oh, if this helps heres some output requested from another forum before anyone can ask: These commands were run after entering the root password
Ok I dont have karma to post links, can I even post the question?
If you are hitting this right away, with a fresh installation, you will be battling this until you make your root partition larger. Also, the akmod just fills the gap for when a kmod hasn't been built for a new kernel; it has nothing to do with compiling your own kernel. You don't have to manually reinstall the kmod after kernel updates.
To expand a little bit, akmod-nvidia checks at boot if there's a kmod-nvidia that matches the running kernel. If so, it does nothing. If not, it creates one on the fly, with no user intervention needed. That, of course, takes a little time, but not much and it only happens on the first reboot after a kernel update. Most of the time, it's not needed because the new kernel and the new kmod are released together, but occasionally there's a delay. As I wrote before, if you get a new kernel, but no kmod-nvidia, just don't try booting into the new kernel until you do.