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initramfs-tools package

  1. Bug #798414
  2. Comment #33

Comment 33 for bug 798414

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Redoubts (redoubts) wrote : Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't enough free space

Note that the autoremove trick won't work for kernels installed before a fix was released.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+source/aptitude/+bug/923876/comments/45

You can make the tedium of manual removal slightly easier with curly-braces. The following would expand into several packages:
apt-get remove linux-image-extra-3.8.0-{19,23,24,25,etc.}-generic # please verify numbers before running

Also note that you have a few 3.5 kernels (eg 3.5.0-28-generic) along with your 3.8 kernels, which may appear to be newer, even thought they are less relevant now.

It's a shame they placed your carburetor behind the timing belt.