Re: How to uninstall a kernel and *all* of its "dependencies"?
2009/10/23 Klistvud <quotations@aliceadsl.fr>:
> Howdie, fellow Debianites!
>
> My daily question for today:
>
> this morning, another kernel update was proposed to me by the Gnome
> update applet. As I already have three kernels on my Lenny system (the
> 2.6.26-1-amd64 and 2.6.26-2-amd64, as well as a a backported 2.6.30-
> bpo.2-amd64), my grub startup list is beginning to look
> a bit clobbered.
>
> How can I go uninstalling some of the unneeded kernels (particularly
> the backports one which didn't meet my needs in the end) and make sure
> that *everything* that got installed by their respective packages -- or
> built against the particular kernel, such as my wireless and graphics
> modules -- gets uninstalled as well? What is the "Debian way" of
> finding which packages will be obsoleted by uninstalling a particular
> kernel, so that I can prevent cruft from building up?
>
> And ... ehm ... yes, well, I admit, I'm using Synaptics ...
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Klistvud
> Certifiable Loonix User #481801
>
the easiest way is to in synaptics just search for 'linux' and remove
the kernels you not need, ie linux images and linux headers etc for
the versions you want.
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