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ubuntu-release-upgrader package

Trying to upgrade from 16.04

Asked by Niel

Have limited HDD space. Whenever software upgrade is offered, computer says insufficient space on disk. Using Dell Inspiron 530. Newbie to Linux systems.

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Drew Howden (drewhowden) said : 		#1

Sounds like you will need to free up some disk space before performing the upgrade.

Suggestions:
- Delete any files that you don't need, or move them to an external drive.
- Uninstall any applications that you don't need.
- Use the "sudo apt autoremove" command to remove any unnecessary packages.
- Use a program like BleachBit (available from Ubuntu's official repo), to delete any unnecessary files (e.g. caches, temporary files, etc.).
- If there are items in the trash that you are 100% sure that you no longer need, permanently delete them (or even empty the trash completely).

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

For diagnostic purposes please provide the output of the commands (to be executed in a terminal window)

uname -a
lsb_release -crid
df -h

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