Lion install fail - "not enough space" - I have over 90g...?

Tried installing Lion from the app store on my Core 2 Duo iMac 2.4/1GB/250GB. Message says there is not enough space even though I have over 90gb on the hard drive. I repaired permissions, ran software update to make sure I was on the latest version of Snow Leapard...what gives? Any ideas?

2.4/1GB/250GB - There's your problem. Lion requires 2GB ram, minimum.
Frank
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The phone shows that I have 5.8GB of space left.
I'm guessing that this means there is a limit as to the number of apps that can be installed.
Does any one know of any way to increase the number of apps that can be installed?
If not I guess I'll kill some of the worthless Spring apps on there...
Any help you can provide would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Christian
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I can replicate the issue no matter how I try to install an app:
Through the official Palm store (developer mode on or off doesn't matter): I get an error "Sorry, Not Enough Memory. Please delete an application you have installed to make room"
Through FileCoaster: I get an error "install failed: not enough install space" error"
Through the SDK "drop to install" method: a DOS window opens and it looks like it's installing the app, but it never shows on the phone, so the install seems to fail
I haven't tried installing the app through Novaterm, if it helps narrowing down the issue, please let me know and I'll give that a shot.
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I would think that would be simple for the Linux Gurus out there that seem to be able to disect and analyze the WebOS down to the atom level, but surprisingly, I haven't been able to find any information on it (and I'm a Linux noob myself, so I'd have to clue where to start looking).
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I appreciate everyone's help with this!
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229 -rw-       25897                    <no date> underlying-config
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    4 -rw-         615                    <no date> IOS-Self-Sig#2.cer
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    7 -rw-         586                    <no date> IOS-Self-Sig#3.cer
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Have iMac, Yosimite OS 10.10, processor 3.1 GHz Intel Core i5, memory 12 GB 1333 MHz DDR3, internal HD - 1TB, Time machine id 1 TB external La Cie. I see that I have 260 GB left on Time Machine disk, on Time Machine window. Additional message, "Needs 266.46 GB for back up, thus "backup failed". What is my next step? Thank you very much indeed!

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I have 'not enough space' cursed Pages; even though I have plenty of room it refuses to let me download and install it.

Common problem, except all trouble shooting leads to the suicide of the question asker because it yields only claims that no matter what you say, you need to make MORE space. It's a 30 meg file, I have 500 meg free. I have deleted and redownloaded and rebooted about thirty times, in various combinations.
Previously I have cursed many apps this way, always free apps, so I just accepted they were 'dead' to my phone, even after iOS updates and ever since the iPhone 3 this problem has existed (ie: if you didn't have enough space when you START downloading the first time, kiss that app goodbye for life, it just WILL NOT download EVER.) and will either sit at 'Waiting' for a while then claim there's not enough space, or just sit at 'Waiting' indefinitely and progress no further.
The only thing I haven't tried is formatting the entire thing as a fresh phone and retrying, but that's pretty extreme. Has Apple acknowledged this bugs existance yet? Every support thread I see gets replies of "Make more space." no matter what the asker states and eventually the guy just stops coming back and asking, so they're all pretty much unresolved.
Just for the record, I have extensive experience with technology, and am not mentally disabled, so please feel free to talk to me at the level at which your inner voice talks to you, I assure you I will get it. So, can has halp plz? 8(
(PS: I cannot update to the lates iOS 7 as I do not have the insane size required for it to decompress and install, etc, and to do so would require deleting things I cannot lose or having to back it all up manually because there's no convenient way to do it otherwise. Although I can assure you that this problem has been present since the iPhone 3 first came out which was my first iPhone and has been present in every iOS update since, so I have no reason to believe out of the dozens of updates that iOS 7 has addressed this.)

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