Can't install updates - "not enough free space on boot/"

[Michael_Byars]

When I try to update using software updater I receive this error message:

"The upgrade needs a total of 86.2 M free space on disk '/boot'. Please free at least an additional 81.9 M of disk space on '/boot'. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of former installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'."

So I go into terminal and enter: 'sudo apt-get clean"

Terminal doesn't return anything else back and moves down to a new blank command line "michael@michael-Aspire-4830TG:~"

I then reboot for good measure, run software updater again and it again returns the same not-enough-space error message.

I checked with the Disk Usage Analyzer application and I'm only using 155/625 gigabytes on my harddrive.

Is there another way to forcibly make extra space on /boot or have I done-goof'd in some way that is eating up space used by updater?

[v3.xx]

Try

sudo apt-get autoremove

[Michael_Byars]

I ran 'sudo apt-get autoremove', then ran updater and got a similar message:

The upgrade needs a total of 86.2 M free space on disk '/boot'. Please free at least an additional 70.6 M of disk space on '/boot'. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of former installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'.

[v3.xx]

Sounds like its too full for apt-get to work. You will need to manually remove a few old kernels using "dpkg" or the "rm" command.

Then apt-get will work again.

http://www.googlubuntu.com/results/?cx=006238239194895611142:u-ocqbntw_o&q=%2Fboot+full&sa=Search&cof=FORID:9

http://www.googlubuntu.com/results/?cx=006238239194895611142:u-ocqbntw_o&q=manually+remove+old+kernels&sa=Search&cof=FORID:9

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