On 11/19/2016 09:50 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Richard England <rlengl...@frontier.com> > wrote: > >> On 11/18/2016 05:54 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: >>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Russell Senior < >> russ...@personaltelco.net> >>>> Denis> This is a recent install, so I expect that there may not be >>>> many >>>> Denis> kernels. How do I see what older kernels I have? >>>> >>>> I use aptitude for package management. Look for packages named >>>> linux-image-* and the associated linux-image-extra-*. You want to purge >>>> them, I think. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Russell Senior, President >>>> russ...@personaltelco.net >>> I looked using synaptic. I see 4.4.0-42.62 both in generic and extra. >>> There are 7 earlier, all listed as installed. But I also see >> 4.4.0-47.68, >>> yet uname shows 42.68. Is it possible that the install of 47.68 stalled >>> when I got that memory error? But regardless, it seems I have some older >>> stuff to get rid of. >>> >>> But you said "..., I think." That makes me reluctant. Someone as >>> incompetent as I am needs certainty to minimize the chance of >> catastrophe. >>> -Denis >>> _______________________________________________ >>> PLUG mailing list >>> PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org >>> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> I'm not adept at Ubuntu but if you are installing updates with apt-get >> can't you use >> >> sudo apt autoremove --purge >> >> to remove the old kernels as well as other unused packages? >> > It worked. Why do you say that I "cannot use" ? Or are you asking a > question? > > -Denis > _______________________________________________ I use Ubuntu mostly on VMs so I am rarely concerned with removing SW. The machines don't last long enough to merit updating much less removing.
I was questioning my understanding and the applicability in your environment. Hope that helped clean things up for your update. ~~R _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
