Trying to Upgarde but PC says I have little Space

[Richard Barmann]

On 03/27/2016 05:13 PM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Richard Barmann wrote:
>> On 03/27/2016 03:17 PM, Nils Kassube wrote:
>>> I think your partition sda2 only has about 1/2 GiB free space. If
>>> that is the partition for "/", then you should try to move some
>>> files to another partition. Or you could try to make some space by
>>> removing old kernels and also run the command "sudo apt-get clean"
>>> in a terminal (konsole).
>>>
>>> The partition for "/" is used during the upgrade to download the new
>>> packages, and that needs a lot of free space. Actually the packages
>>> are downloaded to "/var/cache/apt/archives", so if you make that
>>> directory a symbolic link to a directory on another partition with
>>> sufficient space, it could also work.
>> I have the root system with  "var" in it in the 11 GB partution as
>> well s the 23 GB partition. The
>> 11 GB partition  shows archives as empty.
> It seems I guessed wrong because according to your second picture it
> looks like your "/" partition is somewhere on sdb. Unfortunately your
> pictures are hardly readable, so I don't know exactly which partition it
> is, but it seems to be a 8.3 Gib partition which has about 1 Gib of free
> space. But that doesn't really look much better than the 1/2 Gib space
> on sda2.
>
>> The archives in the 23 GB
>> partiion is full of  files. Can I delete the Linux Headers Generic
>> and Linux Image Generic? They   go back
>> to 4.2.0.32.35. What is the kernal we are in now?
> If you run the command "sudo apt-get clean" it will remove all the files
> in "/var/cache/apt/archives". Those packages are no longer needed
> because they are already installed. But you could also uninstall old
> kernels. You only need to keep the current kernel. You can find out
> which is the current kernel with the command
>
> uname -r
>
> in a terminal.
>
>> Why do I have two root systems?
> I don't know - maybe you installed Kubuntu twice.
>
>
> Nils
>
>
> Yes, I have  Kubuntu 15.10 and Kubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu 15.10. Iinstalled 15.10 and  did not know how to delete
the 15.04.
Thank you for the help. I really appreciate it. I will be 84 in May and 
maybe someday I will  be able to help someone.
Dick Barmann (I grew up in Barmann's Bar in Milwaukee)