Every time I use sudo apt-get upgrade
, I get errors with the linux-image-extra
and linux-image-generic
.
I am new to Ubuntu so I would like to know if these "image" files are the same as in Windows?
What is the problem with my system if these image files can not be upgraded?
Output from df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root 291G 16G 261G 6% /
none 4,0K 0 4,0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 1,4G 4,0K 1,4G 1% /dev
tmpfs 288M 1,2M 287M 1% /run
none 5,0M 0 5,0M 0% /run/lock
none 1,5G 216K 1,5G 1% /run/shm
none 100M 64K 100M 1% /run/user
/dev/sda1 236M 208M 16M 94% /boot
/home/mama/.Private 291G 16G 261G 6% /home/mama
Link to paste.ubuntu.com: error message.
Although you have to include more details into your question, I will try and guess what your problem is:
Your problem was caused by something different, but I leave this answer as it could eventually help others who might read this post.
I assume you run sudo apt-get upgrade
and it tells you it did not install/upgrade the packages linux-image-extra
and linux-image-generic
.
First of all, those packages are representing the latest kernel available for your system (in easy words). By installing/upgrading them, you install a new kernel version which will be used after the next reboot.
As these kernel updates are major updates and usually need additional dependencies etc. to be taken care of, the normal apt-get upgrade
cannot handle them. You need the advanced upgrade command sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
to proceed. This should do the kernel update and the warning about not-upgraded packages should disappear.
In your case the error was caused by the lack of enough free space in your /boot
partition, which is the place where new kernels get installed. Therefore your question was marked as duplicate of How do I free up more space in /boot?, because you will find detailed answers there on how to solve your problem.
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