update manager error-Not enough free space on the disk

[csaniyer]

Hi all,

when i tried to update my ubuntu it gave me the following error:

"The upgrade page needs a total of 19.9M free space on /boot. please free atleast an additional 3624k of disk space on /boot. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of former installations using sudo apt-get clean"

please help me to fix this error. why the packages require free space on /boot.
how to empty trash
how to remove temporary packages of former installations using sudo apt-get clean"

Thanks in advance.

[Jonathan183]

Space probably needed for a kernel update.
I think trash is available from the file manager ... might be called wastebasket. I don't have Ubuntu installed so can't check.
Try the man pages ... in a terminal type

man apt-get

and you can find out what apt-get clean will do

[Rob_T]

Sounds like to me.... some of the updates are bigger then the old file, and you don't have enough hard drive space.

If your hard drive has a partition move it, or add a second hard drive (Set to slave) and go to your home folder and Mount your new hard drive and move ALL personal files (NOT PROGRAMS) To that second hard drive.

If you have a USB hard drive that will work too.

Then finish your updates.