Dependency problem with linux-image-server, linux-image and linux-headers

taco_truck_tom

I had a /boot full problem but now have lots of space in /boot. But now I can´t do apt-get autoremove or apt-get -f install or anything else. It seems the headers are not in /boot and kept upgrading while the Linux-image did not. What should I try next? I also tried apt-get dist-upgrade and this also fails because of the same dependency problem. Output of ls /var/cache/apt/archives and /var/cache/apt/archives/partial here . root@ethan:/boot#...

Originally asked by Vincent Cate on Stack Exchange (askubuntu) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Do a: sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/* sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/* then a: cd /var/cache/apt/archives sudo apt-get download linux-server linux-image-server linux-headers-server As there seems to be a discrepency between the versions of linux-server (= 3.2.0.69.82) and linux-image-server (= 3.2.0.76.90) install the packages using: sudo dpkg --install --force-all linux-server* linux-image-server* linux-headers-server* As these .deb files were downloaded using apt-get and just forced to install with dpkg they should not break the automatic updates in the future...

Full answer by Fabby: https://askubuntu.stackexchange.com/a/589304 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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