Insufficient space on disk '/'(9.04) for upgrade to 9.10

Try with

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get aoutoclean
sudo apt-get autoremove

If all of this doesn´t work you can download Gparted live Cd from http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ and make bigger root with it.Of coursew you will have to shrink other partition to make place for root.

Thanks for your suggestion which gave me the following result (1) . I
then tried the download and got another '' Not enough room on disk
message'' I tried to use the partition editor on the live cd, but
became confounded.

(1)
drissa@drissa-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get clean
[sudo] password for drissa:
drissa@drissa-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get clean
drissa@drissa-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get aoutoclean
E: Invalid operation aoutoclean
drissa@drissa-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get aoutocleanauta
E: Invalid operation aoutocleanauta
drissa@drissa-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get autoclean
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
drissa@drissa-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get aytoremove
E: Invalid operation aytoremove
drissa@drissa-desktop:~$ sudo apt -get autoremove
sudo: apt: command not found
drissa@drissa-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 939 not upgraded.
drissa@drissa-desktop:~$

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From: zvacet <email address hidden>
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Sent: Thu, November 5, 2009 9:21:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Question #88759]: Insufficient space on disk '/'(9.04) for upgrade to 9.10

Your question #88759 on Ubuntu changed:
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    Status: Open => Answered

zvacet proposed the following answer:

Try with

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get aoutoclean
sudo apt-get autoremove

If all of this doesn´t work you can download Gparted live Cd from
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ and make bigger root with it.Of coursew
you will have to shrink other partition to make place for root.

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Try this:
df -h
and post the results. (This is just to verify how much space you do/do not have.)

Sorry for giving you wrong commands!I Mistyped them.Here the are

sudo apt-get clean

sudo apt-get autoclean

sudo apt-get autoremove

Then please also install and use bleachbit package to get more space...
but the best is to boot your pc from live cd and to resize your hard-disk partitions.

Hth

results from suggestions by jtniehof and zvacet ; see attachment for screenshot of partition editor

drissa@drissa-desktop:~$
df -h
Filesystem
Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5
2.3G 2.2G 18M 100% /
tmpfs
107M 0 107M 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun
107M 108K 107M 1% /var/run
varlock
107M 0 107M 0% /var/lock
udev
107M 148K 107M 1% /dev
tmpfs
107M 112K 107M 1% /dev/shm
lrm
107M 2.4M 104M 3% /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile
drissa@drissa-desktop:~$
sudo apt-get clean
[sudo] password for
drissa:
drissa@drissa-desktop:~$
sudo apt-get clean
drissa@drissa-desktop:~$
sudo apt-get autoclean
Reading package
lists... Done
Building dependency
tree
Reading state
information... Done
drissa@drissa-desktop:~$
sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package
lists... Done
Building dependency
tree
Reading state
information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly
installed, 0 to remove and 939 not upgraded.
drissa@drissa-desktop:~$

________________________________
From: zvacet <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Fri, November 6, 2009 5:18:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Question #88759]: Insufficient space on disk '/'(9.04) for upgrade to 9.10

Your question #88759 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/88759

    Status: Needs information => Answered

zvacet proposed the following answer:

Sorry for giving you wrong commands!I Mistyped them.Here the are

sudo apt-get clean

sudo apt-get autoclean

sudo apt-get autoremove

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2.3GB total is definitely not going to be enough, so I'm afraid it is time for partition resizing (assuming there's some spare space elsewhere on that disk.) That's one of those "usually works fine, but back up all your data first" operations.

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@ Drissa Yilla

Shrink partition next to ubuntu root ans then on that free space increase root partition.You can do it with Ubutu live CD or you can download Gparted live CD from
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ and to it with it.