2009/10/23 Klistvud <quotati...@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. -- [WWW] http://quail.southernvaleslug.org/ "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them" - Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
