I'm doing some Perl development on a VM provided by a client. In order to get the VM small enough to send to me, my client pared it down to the bare minimum. So I guess it's not too big a surprise that when I needed to add some Perl modules from CPAN, that things went South. I tried using cpanm to install the Date::Time module. Then dpkg ran and apparently used up all the free space on /. So, I have a few questions:
1) How do I free the space consumed by dpkg?
2) Is there a better way to install the Perl modules I need?
3) How can I expand the / partition within the VM such that dpkg can finish it's work.
4) Is there a way to constrain dpkg so it does its work in chunks so it won't run out of space.j
I'm open to any and all suggestions.
Thanks,
Ray