On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Richard England <rlengl...@frontier.com> wrote:
> 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. > > ~ Yes. /boot has only two versions now: 4.4.0-42 and -47. So it worked. I had 8 before. -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug