How to remove/uninstall a useless Kernel [SOLVED]

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Magister
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Re: How to remove/uninstall a useless Kernel [SOLVED]

#11 Post by Magister »

you can also do it with:

sudo apt-get purge linux-headers-4.19<PRESS TAB HERE> linux-image-4.19<PRESS TAB HERE>

Don't know your option it can be 686, pae etc so when you press TAB after typing the beginning of a package it will auto complete and show you the choice. The purge option will also remove the .deb files
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Re: How to remove/uninstall a useless Kernel [SOLVED]

#12 Post by Stevo »

Magister wrote: Fri Apr 26, 2019 2:17 pm you can also do it with:

sudo apt-get purge linux-headers-4.19<PRESS TAB HERE> linux-image-4.19<PRESS TAB HERE>

Don't know your option it can be 686, pae etc so when you press TAB after typing the beginning of a package it will auto complete and show you the choice. The purge option will also remove the .deb files
Take care not to remove your running kernel here, though the system will warn you quite strongly if you try that. You don't get the warning if removing the current headers, though, and that can lead to trouble down the road.

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