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"
