Bob Scofield wrote: > I've got a lot of old kernels in my Debian testing and Kubuntu systems that > I'd like to get rid of. Is there a single simple command to use to get rid > of one kernel? > > For example if I have these files in /boot: config-2.6.15-1-486, > initrd.img-2.6.15-1-486, vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-486, System.map-2.6.15-1-486, is > there one aptitude command that can be used to get rid of all of it, or do I > do "aptitude remove config-2.6.15-1-486" for the one file and other similar > commands to get rid of the other files? Do I just use the rm command for all > of these files? > You remove old kernels by their package name. Depending on the kernel version, this will either be kernel-image-2.6.15-1-486 (for older kernels) or linux-image-2.6.15-1-486 (for newer kernels). I don't recall whether the change occurred before or after 2.6.15, but I think it was very near the time 2.6.15 was current.
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