Removing old kernels with yum?

WipeOut wipe_out at users.sourceforge.net
Fri May 27 17:47:01 UTC 2005


Bob Chiodini wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 18:13 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
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>>WipeOut wrote:
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>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>How do I remove old kernels with yum??
>>>
>>>If I do a..
>>># yum list "kernel*"
>>>
>>>I get..
>>>Installed Packages
>>>kernel.i686                              2.6.10-1.741_FC3       installed
>>>kernel.i686                              2.6.9-1.681_FC3        installed
>>>kernel.i686                              2.6.10-1.760_FC3       installed
>>>kernel.i686                              2.6.11-1.14_FC3        installed
>>>kernel.i686                              2.6.11-1.27_FC3        installed
>>>kernel.i686                              2.6.9-1.678_FC3        installed
>>>kernel.i686                              2.6.9-1.667            installed
>>>kernel.i686                              2.6.10-1.737_FC3       installed
>>>kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.9-1.667            installed
>>>kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.10-1.760_FC3       installed
>>>kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.11-1.27_FC3        installed
>>>kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.10-1.737_FC3       installed
>>>kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.10-1.741_FC3       installed
>>>kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.11-1.14_FC3        installed
>>>kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.9-1.678_FC3        installed
>>>kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.9-1.681_FC3        installed
>>>kernel-utils.i386                        1:2.4-13.1.49_FC3      installed
>>>
>>>So if I try..
>>># yum remove kernel.i686
>>>it wants to remove all of them..
>>>
>>>I have tried specifying the version a couple of ways but then it doesn't 
>>>find anything to remove..
>>>
>>>So how do I do it?
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>>Use rpm instead of yum:
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>># rpm -e kernel-2.6.9-1.667 kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.667 ...
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>>Paul.
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>Yum can do it too, ala:
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>        yum remove kernel-2.6.9-1.678_FC3
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>You can also wildcard parts of the name like:
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>        yum remove kernel-smp-2.6.9-*
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>to get rid of all of the 2.6.9 SMP kernels.
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>Bob...
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I am sure I tried that but it didn't seem to work.. the rpm -e way 
worked fine..

Thanks..




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