grub2, dual boot: i get a lot of items, lot of old kernels are installed, how to remove ?

Can you give the output of:

uname -a; lsb_release -a

Thanks

Linux pancho-desktop 2.6.32-32-generic-pae #62-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 20
22:10:33 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
pancho@pancho-desktop:~$

On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 23:21 +0000, actionparsnip wrote:
> Your question #162844 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/162844
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> actionparsnip requested more information:
> Can you give the output of:
>
> uname -a; lsb_release -a
>
> Thanks
>

sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-image-2.6.32-30 linux-image-2.6.32-29 linux-image-2.6.32-28 linux-image-2.6.32-27 linux-image-2.6.32-26 linux-image-2.6.32-25 linux-image-2.6.32-24 linux-image-2.6.32-23; sudo apt-get --purge autoremove

Should leave you with linux-image-2.6.32-32 and linux-image-2.6.32-31 and will be a lot cleaner.

This is the message following the command

[sudo] password for pancho:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package linux-image-2.6.32-30
pancho@pancho-desktop:~$

and nothing change

On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 04:15 +0000, actionparsnip wrote:
> sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-image-2.6.32-30
> linux-image-2.6.32-29
> linux-image-2.6.32-28 linux-image-2.6.32-27 linux-image-2.6.32-26
> linux-
> image-2.6.32-25 linux-image-2.6.32-24 linux-image-2.6.32-23; sudo apt-
> get --purge autoremove

I dont understand what it means?

Thanks

On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 11:11 +0000, marcobra (Marco Braida) wrote:
> Your question #162844 on grub2 in Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+question/162844
>
> Project: Ubuntu => grub2 in Ubuntu
>
> Summary changed to:
> grub2, dual boot: i get a lot of items, lot of old kernels are installed, how to remove ?
>

Ok can you give the output of:

dpkg -l | grep linux-image-2

Thanks

linux-image metapackages don't exist with specific version numbers (or at least not in all releases), and even the linux-image metapackages that do exist are not always installed. So you have to remove the packages that actually provide the kernels that are installed. In this case (since these are PAE kernels):

sudo apt-get purge linux-image-generic-pae-2.6.32-30 linux-image-generic-pae-2.6.32-29 linux-image-generic-pae-2.6.32-28 linux-image-generic-pae-2.6.32-27 linux-image-generic-pae-2.6.32-26 linux-image-generic-pae-2.6.32-25 linux-image-generic-pae-2.6.32-24 linux-image-generic-pae-2.6.32-23; sudo apt-get --purge autoremove

If somehow that doesn't work, please when you reply please do include the output of the dpkg command actionparsnip just posted--that will reveal the names of the proper packages for uninstallation (but will also show packages that should not be uninstalled, so please don't just remove all the listed packages, unless you know what you're doing).

By the way, you can also remove old kernels in the Synaptic Package Manager (this is perhaps the easiest way to do it, especially if you don't know what they're called ahead of time), or (usually) with the Computer Janitor.

pancho@pancho-desktop:~$ dpkg -l | grep linux-image-2
ii linux-image-2.6.32-23-generic-pae 2.6.32-23.37
Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii linux-image-2.6.32-24-generic-pae 2.6.32-24.43
Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii linux-image-2.6.32-25-generic-pae 2.6.32-25.45
Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii linux-image-2.6.32-26-generic-pae 2.6.32-26.48
Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii linux-image-2.6.32-27-generic-pae 2.6.32-27.49
Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii linux-image-2.6.32-28-generic-pae 2.6.32-28.55
Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii linux-image-2.6.32-29-generic-pae 2.6.32-29.58
Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii linux-image-2.6.32-30-generic-pae 2.6.32-30.59
Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii linux-image-2.6.32-31-generic-pae 2.6.32-31.61
Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii linux-image-2.6.32-32-generic-pae 2.6.32-32.62
Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
pancho@pancho-desktop:~$

On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 14:41 +0000, actionparsnip wrote:
> dpkg -l | grep linux-image-2

Please try this:

sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-image-2.6.32-{23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30}-generic-pae
sudo apt-get --purge autoremove

Thank you very much

My list now is very short and clean

Again Thanks

nice command dude :)

Welcome And Thanks