https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/RemoveOldKernels

Jarno Suni j_suni at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Jul 23 22:57:29 UTC 2016



> On Friday, July 22, 2016 1:44 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Hi Jarno!
> 
> On 2016-07-21 20:24, Jarno Suni wrote:
>>  To get information about which package to install to get command
>>  purge-old-kernels (used in Manual Maintenance section of the
>>  document), if such a package is not already installed (which is the
>>  case by default), one may run the command as regular user in terminal
>>  i.e. without sudo. From Xenial on, the package is byobu; on older
>>  ones down to Trusty it is bikeshed:
>>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bikeshed/+bug/1473161
> 
> Thanks for letting us know; I suppose it motivates further tweaking of
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/RemoveOldKernels

Yes.

> Please note that there is a method in place (again) to get edit access
> to the wikis. I suggest that you apply to join
> <https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wiki-editors> and make the remaining
> changing to the page yourself once your application has been approved.
> No reason any longer to request changes via the ubuntu-doc list.

Ok, I applied to the team.

> 
>>  BTW I have created IMO a better script for removing old kernels. I
>>  think such a script should be included in linux-base package so that
>>  it would be included in new Ubuntu releases by default.
> 
> Nice! Then you may want to file a wishlist bug against linux-base, and
> provide the script as a patch. If you want to discuss it and get
> feedback before you do, the ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list is
> probably a better choice than this documentation list.


Thanks for the advise. 

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