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You might have too many old kernels installed. This would potentially fill up the /boot partition. One way to check this is:
Look for the line indicating space left for /boot.
You can then get a list of the installed kernels with:
If you need to remove old ones, use
uname -ato identify the running kernel (should be the latest version if you've rebooted after the last kernel update) then remove all of the older kernel packages with:More generally speaking, I think that
sudo apt autoremoveshould leave you with only the latest 2 kernel packages by default.apt autoremove says dependencies are lacking
apt --fix-broken install gives me:
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