Trying to Upgarde but PC says I have little Space

[Richard Barmann]

On 03/27/2016 10:56 PM, Richard Barmann wrote:
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> 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).
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>>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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
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>>> uname -r
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>>> in a terminal.
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>>>> Why do I have two root systems?
>>> I don't know - maybe you installed Kubuntu twice.
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>>> Nils
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>>> 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. I also have Microsoft XP but I would like
to get rid of it also.
> Dick Barmann
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