I find
sudo aptitude purge '~i2.6.32-57'
is a good way to select the right packages.
I often do things like.
sudo aptitude purge '~i3.0.8-2[459]'
That takes care of all the headers and images and -generic and -kernel and
-virtual....
Someone posted a really nice one that used the uname output very nicely
but I've lost it. Probably one of these:
http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/5829/remove-all-unused-kernels-with-apt-get
If you catch yourself doing an aptitude search piped to grep you're
probably doing it wrong.
You would catch yourself doing that for a a good reason (IMHO) -- the
documentation for the very powerful search is a rather inscrutable.
As to Ubuntu not cleaning up kernels.....
There actually is an autoremove. I don't know how I enabled it,
but there are remnants that give me a clue:
gsker at veeta:~/mail> dpkg -S /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal
apt: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal
and /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove-kernels
I catch it removing kernel packages once in a while. :-)
FWIW
On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, tclug at freakzilla.com wrote:
> You cn remove anything that's not for the current kernel version. One of my
> biggest nitpicks with Ubuntu is that it doesn't do that automatically.
>
> Like David said, it's not a bad idea to leave the headers in there.
>
>
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, paul g wrote:
>
>> I have a computer running Ubuntu 10.04 and have removed most of the images
>> using the following command in bash sudo aptitude search linux-image |
>> grep -E "^i"
>>
>> then I updated grub,
>>
>> I pulled a dpkg -l |less command and here are the results.
>>
>> ri linux-headers-2.6.32-45
>> 2.6.32-45.104 Header files related to
>> Linux kernel version 2.6.32
>> ii linux-headers-2.6.32-45-generic
>> 2.6.32-45.104 Linux kernel headers for
>> version 2.6.32 on x86/x86_
>> ii linux-headers-2.6.32-46
>> 2.6.32-46.108 Header files related to
>> Linux kernel version 2.6.32
>> ii linux-headers-2.6.32-46-generic
>> 2.6.32-46.108 Linux kernel headers for
>> version 2.6.32 on x86/x86_
>> ii linux-headers-2.6.32-47
>> 2.6.32-47.109 Header files related to
>> Linux kernel version 2.6.32
>> ii linux-headers-2.6.32-47-generic
>> 2.6.32-47.109 Linux kernel headers for
>> version 2.6.32 on x86/x86_
>> ii linux-headers-2.6.32-48
>> 2.6.32-48.110 Header files related to
>> Linux kernel version 2.6.32
>> ii linux-headers-2.6.32-48-generic
>> 2.6.32-48.110 Linux kernel headers for
>> version 2.6.32 on x86/x86_
>> ii linux-headers-2.6.32-49
>> 2.6.32-49.111 Header files related to
>> Linux kernel version 2.6.32
>> ii linux-headers-2.6.32-49-generic
>> 2.6.32-49.111 Linux kernel headers for
>> version 2.6.32 on x86/x86_
>> ii linux-headers-2.6.32-50
>> 2.6.32-50.112 Header files related to
>> Linux kernel version 2.6.32
>> ii linux-headers-2.6.32-50-generic
>> 2.6.32-50.112 Linux kernel headers for
>> version 2.6.32 on x86/x86_
>> ii linux-headers-2.6.32-51
>> 2.6.32-51.113 Header files related to
>> Linux kernel version 2.6.32
>> ii linux-headers-2.6.32-51-generic
>> 2.6.32-51.113 Linux kernel headers for
>> version 2.6.32 on x86/x86_
>> ii linux-headers-2.6.32-52
>> 2.6.32-52.114 Header files related to
>> Linux kernel version 2.6.32
>> ii linux-headers-2.6.32-52-generic
>> 2.6.32-52.114 Linux kernel headers for
>> version 2.6.32 on x86/x86_
>> ii linux-headers-2.6.32-53
>> 2.6.32-53.115 Header files related to
>> Linux kernel version 2.6.32
>> ii linux-headers-2.6.32-53-generic
>> 2.6.32-53.115 Linux kernel headers for
>> version 2.6.32 on x86/x86_
>> ii linux-headers-2.6.32-54
>> 2.6.32-54.116 Header files related to
>> Linux kernel version 2.6.32
>> ii linux-headers-2.6.32-54-generic
>> 2.6.32-54.116 Linux kernel headers for
>> version 2.6.32 on x86/x86_
>> ii linux-headers-2.6.32-55
>> 2.6.32-55.117 Header files related to
>> Linux kernel version 2.6.32
>> ii linux-headers-2.6.32-55-generic
>> 2.6.32-55.117 Linux kernel headers for
>> version 2.6.32 on x86/x86_
>> ii linux-headers-2.6.32-56
>> 2.6.32-56.118 Header files related to
>> Linux kernel version 2.6.32
>> ii linux-headers-2.6.32-56-generic
>> 2.6.32-56.118 Linux kernel headers for
>> version 2.6.32 on x86/x86_
>> ii linux-headers-2.6.32-57
>> 2.6.32-57.119 Header files related to
>> Linux kernel version 2.6.32
>> ii linux-headers-2.6.32-57-generic
>> 2.6.32-57.119 Linux kernel headers for
>> version 2.6.32 on x86/x86_
>> ii linux-headers-generic
>> 2.6.32.57.64 Generic Linux kernel
>> headers
>> ii linux-image-2.6.32-55-generic
>> 2.6.32-55.117 Linux kernel image for
>> version 2.6.32 on x86/x86_64
>> ii linux-image-2.6.32-56-generic
>> 2.6.32-56.118 Linux kernel image for
>> version 2.6.32 on x86/x86_64
>> ii linux-image-2.6.32-57-generic
>> 2.6.32-57.119 Linux kernel image for
>> version 2.6.32 on x86/x86_64
>> :
>> please help
>>
>> note the ri preceding the linux-headers-2.6.32-45
>>
>> Do I need to keep the headers on the computer in order to continue to
>> operate the programs I have installed.
>>
>> Thank You.
>>
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