Hi guys, forgive me for being a noob, but i've been trying to clear space from /boot (as i'm unable to update) but i'm getting a message that to delete any of the packages, it requires a package that i don't have installed. Obviously, I can't use apt-get to install packages because /boot is full... so i'm stuck

Anyone give me some advice?


Of course, I've tried to apt-get -f install:


I'm not sure why it's asking for dependencies for .34, when uname-r shows 3.8.0.31...


Thanks a bunch in advance!

Could you give us a directory listing of the /boot directory. It seems that you got a lot of unneeded kernels in your /boot directory.

Also tell us please which distro and version you are using.

Cheers

Thanks Gerrard!
I'm on Ubuntu 13.04

Looks like you still got about 10 different kernel versions installed.

First try to de-install the older kernels versions with
replace xx with the revision code, like 19, 22, 23 and so on.
Starting with the oldest version and working your way up until you only have the latest 2 or 3 kernels left.

You might still get some error messages because apt-get will try to rebuild the initrd.img files every time and there might still not be enough free space at the beginning.
It should go better after you removed a few of the older kernels.

For people reading this thread. Normally you only need to keep the last 2 kernels. The one you just installed. And the previous one as a fall-back in case the new one gives you problems.