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I'm very new to Linux so please bear with me. I attempted to upgrade to 14.04 from 12.04.02 I received the error:

"The following packages have unmet dependencies"

I ran apt-get -f install and received more errors. apt-get autoremove also gives me the dependencies error.

When I run uname -a it shows that I'm running 3.2.0-56 and the dependencies tell me the package is dependent on 3.2.0-65 So my question is can I safely delete all the other packages in /boot to recover some space? That seems to be the issue because there is only 200 MB or so available.There are numerous packages that I believe I should be able to delete:

3.2.0-55 and 3.2.0.-57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63 and 64.
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I would advise you to not delete but move them instead to a temporary location (ex a USB drive or a different partition).

Removing them does not remove the package, and if you later need to remove those packages you may get some problems.

After you freed up some space, you can then try to fix your dependencies issues and then uninstall all those unneeded kernels. If you get some problem you just move the files again to /boot as needed.

Also if you have only one partiton (ie / and /boot are on the same partition) it may be easier to cleanup some space in other locations (ex: /var/cache/apt)

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