It may be unfair to single-out Ubuntu in this issue, since it may also be an issue with other distributions as well. Regardless, it is 2016 and it seems noteworthy that the annoying "Not enough free disk space" error during regular updates is still a thing. In the faint chance that there are those who are unaware of this scenario, this is it. The Software Updater application gathers the next round of updates. Upon application, the following error message is encountered. The error suggests running apt-get clean to resolve the issue. The error suggests running the clean option against the apt-get command, which seems to be something of a red herring, as it does nothing. Instead, the following will take care of things. From the command line: dpkg --get-selections | grep linux-image This will list all the current kernels that are hogging up the /boot directory. Run the following to remove unused kernel packages. sudo apt-get purge UNUSED-KERNEL There a
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