[PLUG] laptop error msg out of space for /boot

[Denis Heidtmann]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Richard England <rlengland at frontier.com>
wrote:

> On 11/18/2016 05:54 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Russell Senior <
> russell at personaltelco.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>>>>>> "Denis" == Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com> writes:
> >> Denis> This is a recent install, so I expect that there may not be many
> >> Denis> kernels.  How do I see what older kernels I have?
> >>
> >> I use aptitude for package management.  Look for packages named
> >> linux-image-* and the associated linux-image-extra-*.  You want to purge
> >> them, I think.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Russell Senior, President
> >> russell at personaltelco.net
> >
> > I looked using synaptic.  I see 4.4.0-42.62 both in generic and extra.
> > There are 7 earlier, all listed as installed.  But I also see
> 4.4.0-47.68,
> > yet uname shows 42.68.  Is it possible that the install of 47.68 stalled
> > when I got that memory error?  But regardless, it seems I have some older
> > stuff to get rid of.
> >
> > But you said "..., I think."  That makes me reluctant.  Someone as
> > incompetent as I am needs certainty to minimize the chance of
> catastrophe.
> >
> > -Denis
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> I'm not adept at Ubuntu but if you are installing updates with apt-get
> can't you use
>
> sudo apt autoremove --purge
>
> to remove the old kernels as well as other unused packages?
>

It worked.  Why do you say that I "cannot use" ?  Or are you asking a
question?

-Denis