Removing old kernels with yum?
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Fri May 27 21:12:36 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 18:11 +0100, WipeOut wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do I remove old kernels with yum??
>
> If I do a..
> # yum list "kernel*"
>
instead do an "rpm -qa kernel"
[jeff at eye_gore seti]$ rpm -qa kernel
kernel-2.6.10-1.770_FC3
kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3
kernel-2.6.11-1.27_FC3
then do "rpm -e <kernel version>" with the one you are removing from
above.
[jeff at eye_gore seti]$ sudo rpm -e kernel-2.6.10-1.770_FC3
Password:
[jeff at eye_gore seti]$ rpm -qa kernel
kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3
kernel-2.6.11-1.27_FC3
As you can see, it works perfectly.
> 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?
>
> Thanks
>
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