Trying to Upgarde but PC says I have little Space

[Richard Barmann]

On 03/27/2016 10:16 PM, Richard Barmann wrote:
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> 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)
> What is the safest way to remove the Kubuntu 15.04 without losing my 
> saved files.
Dick Barmann