On Friday 30 November 2001 18:02, nate wrote: > <quote who="Costa, Todd (DMH)"> > > > Hi List members, > > > > I have just finished a custom kernel the debian way (I > > think, "make-kpkg", etc, "dpkg -i"). And now I want to get > > rid of the old kernel (references). And I am not sure if I > > should just delete them with out asking first some > > experienced debian users. > > another guy mentioned apt-get remove, but it may also > be helpful to purge the kernel as well if required. > what i do is dpkg -r kernel-image-some_version > then dpkg --purge kernel-image-some_version > > theres a way to do it with apt too but from a quick > look at the help portion i don't see it..maybe > apt-get remove purge kernel-image-some_version > purge usually takes care of the configuration files > and stuff. not sure if the kernel image requires a > purge off the top of my head but it cant hurt.
apt-get --purge remove kernel-image-some_version
