BlacklightHalo
December 26th, 2016, 08:26 PM
Hello all,
I'm trying to upgrade to Kubuntu 16.04. My current distro (14.04) is apparently broken, and to make things worse, the drives have somehow had their priority changed so that the disk drive is not #1, and therefore the LiveCD approach (which I usually prefer) doesn't work.
I looked for a terminal command to make this happen for me, and found
sudo kubuntu-devel-release-upgrade
I used this. First, I got "Error: '/var/tmp/kdecache-myname' is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0." I don't know what that means, but the process seemed to continue anyway. After some waiting, my terminal said "Checking for a new Ubuntu release," and then began connecting to the Ubuntu servers. Then the GUI I was expecting appeared. I got as far as "Setting new software channels" before I got an error, "Not enough free disk space. The upgrade has aborted. The upgrade needs a total of 93.7 M free space on disk '/boot'. Please free at least 6.965 k of disk space on '/boot'. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of former installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'.
I followed the last two steps, but what I'm writing this to ask is, how do I free-up the necessary space in '/boot'? I found this page (http://askubuntu.com/questions/89710/how-do-i-free-up-more-space-in-boot) which says I can use
sudo apt-get purge-linux-image
to do this. However, I assume I can't execute this command without typing the names of the previous kernels I'm trying to purge, and I don't know how to figure-out which ones are there/need purging.
I'm trying to upgrade to Kubuntu 16.04. My current distro (14.04) is apparently broken, and to make things worse, the drives have somehow had their priority changed so that the disk drive is not #1, and therefore the LiveCD approach (which I usually prefer) doesn't work.
I looked for a terminal command to make this happen for me, and found
sudo kubuntu-devel-release-upgrade
I used this. First, I got "Error: '/var/tmp/kdecache-myname' is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0." I don't know what that means, but the process seemed to continue anyway. After some waiting, my terminal said "Checking for a new Ubuntu release," and then began connecting to the Ubuntu servers. Then the GUI I was expecting appeared. I got as far as "Setting new software channels" before I got an error, "Not enough free disk space. The upgrade has aborted. The upgrade needs a total of 93.7 M free space on disk '/boot'. Please free at least 6.965 k of disk space on '/boot'. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of former installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'.
I followed the last two steps, but what I'm writing this to ask is, how do I free-up the necessary space in '/boot'? I found this page (http://askubuntu.com/questions/89710/how-do-i-free-up-more-space-in-boot) which says I can use
sudo apt-get purge-linux-image
to do this. However, I assume I can't execute this command without typing the names of the previous kernels I'm trying to purge, and I don't know how to figure-out which ones are there/need purging.