Cleaning past installs

[William Frick]

Thank you both for the tips.  Do I have to rebuild grub to reflect the
changes ?


On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Stephen M. Webb <stephen.webb at canonical.com>
wrote:

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> On 15-04-05 11:40 AM, William Frick wrote:
> > I can't find the original source but I recall there was a simple command
> to remove old kernels etcetera so they
> > don't get picked up by grub as boot options.  Also as a housekeeping
> measure prior to upgrading to the latest
> > (15.04) when the time comes.
> >
> > I recall it was something like sudo apt-get clean .....
> >
> > Suggestions anyone ?
>
> "sudo apt-get autoremove --purge"
>
> This will remove all old kernels except for the current and the previous
> current, as well as any other old unnecessary
> packages.  It removes them and all their related files so you get the disk
> space back.
>
> I run that command after every dist-upgrade that installs a new kernel
> (which on the -dev version of Ubuntu is about
> once a week).  I have never run into trouble.
>
>
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