> 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
Good question. I wish I could tell you "just dpkg -l linux-image\*" and
"aptitude purge" the kernels you don't like, but indeed in my experience
this tends to leave some cruft around (e.g. linux-headers, maybe some
modules compiled with module-assistant, ...).
What I do is:\
- dpkg -l linux-image\*
to see which kernels I have installed and I want to remove.
- ls /boot
to have a second opinion
- aptitude purge linux-image-<vers>
- dpkg -l '*<vers>*' | grep '^i'
to see the packages whose name includes that kernel version and are
still installed. E.g.
dpkg -l '*2.6.26-1* | grep '^i'
- aptitude purge them. Before purging them, you may think a bit about
it and if you think they really should have been removed
automatically, then use `reportbug' accordingly.
Stefan
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