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I'm a new in the ubuntu community. I am having trouble with 17.04: even after running most of the recommended scripts, I still cannot solve the below error. What can I do?

linux-signed-image-4.10.0-33-generic : Depends: linux-image-4.10.0-33-generic (= 4.10.0-33.37) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
dingi3@dingi3-HP-Pavilion-15-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo apt --fix-broken install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
    linux-image-4.10.0-33-generic
Suggested packages:
    fdutils linux-doc-4.10.0 | linux-source-4.10.0 linux-tools
The following NEW packages will be installed:
    linux-image-4.10.0-33-generic
0 to upgrade, 1 to newly install, 0 to remove and 57 not to upgrade.
14 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/20.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 70.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 472330 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-image-4.10.0-33-generic_4.10.0-33.37_amd64.deb ...
Examining /etc/kernel/preinst.d/
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/preinst.d/intel-microcode 4.10.0-33-generic /boot/vmlinuz-4.10.0-33-generic
Done.
Unpacking linux-image-4.10.0-33-generic (4.10.0-33.37) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-4.10.0-33-generic_4.10.0-33.37_amd64.deb (--unpack):
cannot copy extracted data for './boot/vmlinuz-4.10.0-33-generic' to '/boot/vmlinuz-4.10.0-33-generic.dpkg-new': failed to write (No space left on device)
No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full error
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Examining /etc/kernel/postrm.d .
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools 4.10.0-33-generic /boot/vmlinuz-4.10.0-33-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub 4.10.0-33-generic /boot/vmlinuz-4.10.0-33-generic
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-4.10.0-33-generic_4.10.0-33.37_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Dingi3
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Have you check /boot partition size as well as inode usage because here clearly mention that failed to write (No space left on device), first check this.

After trying

sudo apt-get update –fix-missing

and

sudo dpkg –configure -a

and

sudo apt-get install -f

the problem of a broken package still exist the solution is to edit the dpkg status file manually.

$ sudo nano /var/lib/dpkg/status    (you can use vim or gedit instead of nano)

Locate the corrupt package, and remove the whole block of information about it and save the file.

You can list broken packages :

dpkg -l | grep ^..r

r state (on the third field) means: reinst-required (package broken, re-installation required)

Nullpointer
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