On Fri February 15 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > 2.6.18-4-686 2.6.18-6-686 2.6.18-6-vserver-686 2.6.22-2-686 > > 2.6.18-5-486 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem 2.6.18-6-vserver-k7 > > 2.6.22-3-686 2.6.18-5-686 2.6.18-6-amd64 2.6.18-6-xen-686 > > 2.6.18-6-486 2.6.18-6-k7 2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-686 > > > > I am running Etc, with the 2.6.18-6-686 kernel. What is the correct way > > to get rid of those, dpkg deinstall ? > > > > Use whatever package management tool you normally use. If you are > running Etch then you will have installed non-etch kernels (e.g. > 2.6.22-2-686, 2.6.22-3-686 which are not Etch). Ensure that you keep > your current kernel and the last one that ran well. I suppose that if > you are using Xen then you need a xen kernel. If you need vserver... > etc. > > Doug.
ok, now I remember. I had to add the linux-headers package: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-all-i386 to get the headers so I could install my NVIDIA driver into the current kernel. This added all of those OTHER kernel packages and folder.. when I try to remove the xen-vserver headers I get this: # aptitude remove linux-headers-2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-686 linux-image-2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-686 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are BROKEN: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-all-i386 The following packages have been kept back: libquicktime0 The following packages will be REMOVED: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-686 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 8040kB will be freed. The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-all-i386: Depends: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-686 (= 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch1) but it is not installable Resolving dependencies... The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-all-i386 Score is 119 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n Resolving dependencies... *** No more solutions available *** The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-all-i386 ----------------------------------------- now what. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459
