If you are running Ubuntu and try to run the update manager and receive an error message along the following lines:
Not enough free disk space The upgrade needs a total of 15.7M free space on disk '/boot'. Please free at least an additional 9324k of disk space on '/boot'. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of former installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'.
This probably means that you have old kernels lying around in /boot. Do you have a long list of image versions in GRUB when you boot your PC? To clean them out so you can run update-manager, do the following
1. Type ‘sudo uname -r’ to check which kernel you are currently running on
2. Go to Synaptic Package Manager and search on ‘linux-image’, narrow the results down by clicking on Installed in the left hand pane.
3. Mark for complete removal all the Linux Image Kernel versions your system isn’t using (maybe keep one back just in case, leaving you with two images, the one currently in use and a spare)
4. Run ‘sudo apt-get clean’
5. Reboot then run update-manager again o install updates
- 12 Jun, 2011
- admin
- GRUB, Linux Image Kernel, PC, Synaptic Package Manager
- Linux
