Update manager disk space error should provide options

[Ted Gould]

I'm getting the error about disk space:

The upgrade aborts now. The upgrade needs a total of 1395M free space on disk '/'. Please free at least an additional 364M of disk space on '/'. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of former installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'.

Which is fine, but what bugs me is that it tells me what to do, but doesn't offer to do it for me. There should be buttons for "apt-get clean" and perhaps even an option to uninstall old kernels. I shouldn't have to leave update-manager, do these things from the command line (ewww), and then come back.

[Paco Riviere (pacoriviere)]

Wrong needed space notification
I'm having an even worse problem. Upon update-manager start, it claims 850MB of space are needed, but an hour later, after downloading updates, it stops, as it claims to need 1200 MB!

Don't know if a new bug should be openend. Anyway here it is for the records.

[Paco Riviere (pacoriviere)]

More info: upgrading from UNR on Jaunty.

[Paco Riviere (pacoriviere)]

Further problems: after uninstalling all OpenOffice suite and so providing much more space than claimed, now update-manager stops again, as it claims to need 2148 MB!

Something realy does not work properly on update-manager when updating from Jaunty+UNR to Karmic! Pls. take note.