How to fix the problem when the disk is full while running apt-get?

[Peng Yu]

Hi, My disk is full. So I get the following error message.

$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-3.13.0-27 linux-headers-3.13.0-27-generic
  linux-headers-3.13.0-29 linux-headers-3.13.0-29-generic
  linux-headers-3.13.0-30 linux-headers-3.13.0-30-generic
  linux-headers-3.13.0-32 linux-headers-3.13.0-32-generic
  linux-headers-3.13.0-34 linux-image-3.11.0-20-generic
  linux-image-3.13.0-27-generic linux-image-3.13.0-29-generic
  linux-image-3.13.0-30-generic linux-image-3.13.0-32-generic
  linux-image-3.13.0-34-generic linux-image-extra-3.11.0-20-generic
  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-27-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-29-generic
  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-30-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-32-generic
  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-34-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  linux-headers-3.13.0-53 linux-headers-3.13.0-53-generic
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-headers-3.13.0-53 linux-headers-3.13.0-53-generic
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 159 not upgraded.
8 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/9,575 kB of archives.
After this operation, 76.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 233862 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-headers-3.13.0-53_3.13.0-53.89_all.deb ...
Unpacking linux-headers-3.13.0-53 (3.13.0-53.89) ...
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-3.13.0-53_3.13.0-53.89_all.deb
(--unpack):
 unable to create
`/usr/src/linux-headers-3.13.0-53/arch/x86/include/asm/unaligned.h.dpkg-new'
(while processing
`./usr/src/linux-headers-3.13.0-53/arch/x86/include/asm/unaligned.h'):
No space left on device
No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full error

       dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken
pipe)
Preparing to unpack
.../linux-headers-3.13.0-53-generic_3.13.0-53.89_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-headers-3.13.0-53-generic (3.13.0-53.89) ...
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-3.13.0-53-generic_3.13.0-53.89_amd64.deb
(--unpack):
 unable to create
`/usr/src/linux-headers-3.13.0-53-generic/include/config/sched/mc.h.dpkg-new'
(while processing
`./usr/src/linux-headers-3.13.0-53-generic/include/config/sched/mc.h'):
No space left on device
No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full error

       dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken
pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-3.13.0-53_3.13.0-53.89_all.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-3.13.0-53-generic_3.13.0-53.89_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

But when I try to run autoremove, it asks me to run apt-get -f
install. How to fix this problem?

$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 linux-headers-generic : Depends: linux-headers-3.13.0-53-generic but
it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
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Regards,
Peng