/boot filled up with kernel updates, simple solution required

[elementaryBot]

/boot filled up with kernel updates, simple solution required

[wilsonehusin]

This issue still exists. However, I found an easy solution that involves typing 1 line on terminal.
$ sudo apt autoremove
And it's clear! Possibly injecting one line at the end of update command on AppCenter would do this, but in the mean time this is a solution that I am sticking with.

[Arnwaltur]

It seems that sudo apt autoremove does not clean up like before.
I use Mainline to manually remove old Kernels. By the way, Mainline does not know how to identify which Kernel is used.
Automatic cleaning would be a plus for the distribution. I've been using eOS for a while and this is the only thing that stops me from installing it on newbies' computers.

[elementaryBot]

Same happen on default ubuntu install. If manually setting boot partition to a small value, after some kernel update apt fails until you clean up it manually. I think that keeping last 3 update should be enough

Launchpad Details: #LPC Nicolò Balzarotti - 2014-11-03 09:36:14 +0000

[elementaryBot]

To get rid of these you need to do this at the command line:

sudo apt-get purge linux-image-3.16.0.46-generic
(where the last bit matches an old file in /boot)
DON'T remove the most recent, though!

but yeah I agree that it should ideally be automatically done by the updater. this is one of the few things I have to regularly go into the command line for in elementary os

Launchpad Details: #LPC dankcushions - 2015-10-19 19:02:45 +0000

[elementaryBot]

Assigning this to appcenter. Appcenter should probably automatically know about automatically removing old kernels.

Launchpad Details: #LPC Daniel Fore - 2016-05-07 02:28:22 +0000

[elementaryBot]

https://www.bountysource.com/issues/5850207-boot-filled-up-with-kernel-updates-simple-solution-required

Launchpad Details: #LPC Maxim Taranov - 2016-12-15 01:44:33 +0000

[ChildishGiant]

This is also being tracked in elementary/triage#91

[danirabbit]

Moving to settings-daemon since AppCenter is planned to no longer handle packagekit updates