Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> I have been running Ubuntu 5.10 for a couple of months now. There
> have been some kernel upgrades during that time, and older versions of
> the kernel are still present in /boot and show up in the GRUB menu.
> What is the approved (Debian-oriented) method of doing this?
If you have been using apt-get instead of aptitude, you can ``apt-get
remove''. You can also ``dpkg --remove'' (dpkg -r) the packages.
Neither will remove dependencies that are no longer required. This is a
job for deborphan.
If you have been using aptitude(1) to install packages, then ``aptitude
remove'' will remove, and any non-required dependencies.
> Is this a job for "# apt-get remove"? What is the best way to get the
> package names that belong to these older kernel versions?
% COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | grep \^i.*kernel-image | awk '{print $2}'
There is probably an easier way, but this is the way that is easiest for
me (though I usually leave off the awk)
-john
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