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I’m having a big problem with my computer, I’m trying to free spaces to remove packages I don’t need. I tried everything I find on how to fix this problem, but they don’t work.

I kept having this error saying:

“You don’t have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/“

But I got “0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded”

I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.

Artur Meinild
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Christian Boyce
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    Welcome. Please let's focus on one thing at a time - that you're out of disk space. Take a look here to find why your disk is full. – Artur Meinild Jan 05 '23 at 09:10
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    Also, you should probably include the exact commands and output that you run for troubleshooting purposes. Also include output of df -h to list mounts, and also sudo du -h --max-depth=1 / 2> /dev/null | sort -hr to view largest directories in /. – Artur Meinild Jan 05 '23 at 09:13
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    On most systems, packages take up very little space, and trying to remove packages to free space is often an inefficient use of your time and effort: You may free up 100MB of packages, but you missed the 25GB of movies or runaway logs or other low-hanging fruit. Look at other users of your storage space using baobab, du, and df. Look up how to use those tools to discover the biggest storage-hogs. – user535733 Jan 05 '23 at 15:12

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You can try it with sudo apt-get clean, which will remove all unneeded .deb files from /var/cache/apt/archives and that may be enough space to uninstall unneeded packages to free up even more space.

You can also empty your trash and delete other files you don't need.

Additionally Ubuntu comes with a program called "Disk Usage Analyzer" (baobab in the terminal), I believe, which can help you find large files and folders you maybe didn't even remember having.

Lampe2020
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