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Here's a copy of part of the output I'm seeing when I try to update;



dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-3.2.0-49_3.2.0-49.75_all.deb (--unpack):
error creating directory `./usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-49/arch/m68k/platform/68EZ328': 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-3.2.0-49_3.2.0-49.75_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)





colin@colin-Satellite-A60:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 11G 8.5G 1.6G 85% /
udev 336M 4.0K 336M 1% /dev
tmpfs 138M 768K 137M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 343M 88K 343M 1% /run/shm


I've tried the usual sudo apt-get install -f as well as sudo apt-get clean without success - I know I've got a lot of old Linux kernels installed which I can't remove because of the disk space full error, so I'm running out ideas, can anyone advise please ?



Note this is xubuntu running on an ancient Toshiba A60 laptop as a WUBI install IIRC :-}


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I found a workable solution in reply to someone having the same problem in another thread;


Of the two answers, the first worked for me (I'm not really sure what to do with the second answer to be honest !


[#30266] Saturday, June 5, 2021, 3 Years  [reply] [flag answer]
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