autoremove old kernel related packages - Was: Out of space

[Vesa-Pekka Tapani Mikkola]

Thank You for your words so gentle.

Hard it was here but one step a head is taken well.

Please continue.


Pekka

Is linux-generic the only one showing that is manuel??


On 08/02/2016 12:42 PM, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> On Di, 2016-08-02 at 12:35 -0400, Richard Barmann wrote:
>> My result was slightly different than you show.Is that all right??
>>
>> richard at richard-desktop:~$ apt-mark showauto|grep ^linux-
>> linux-base
>> linux-firmware
>> linux-headers-4.4.0-31
>> linux-headers-4.4.0-31-generic
>> linux-headers-generic
>> linux-image-4.4.0-31-generic
>> linux-image-extra-4.4.0-31-generic
>> linux-image-generic
>> linux-libc-dev
>> linux-sound-base
>> richard at richard-desktop:~$ apt-mark showmanual|grep ^linux-
>> linux-generic
>> richard at richard-desktop:~$
>>
> your linux-image-generic and linux-headers-generic as well as linux-
> libc-dev packages should all be manual ... (they are all second level
> metapackages), then the autoremove magic should work fine ...
>
> ciao
> 	oli
>
>



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02.08.2016, 20:21, Ralf Mardorf kirjoitti:
> On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 15:47:14 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>> hi,
>> On Di, 2016-08-02 at 14:23 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>>   
>>>
>>> Assumed I want to remove the old kernel I run a script, autoremove
>>> doesn't remove the old kernel.
>> if:
>>
>> apt-mark showmanual|grep linux
>>
>> does not list your kernel packages, then this is a bug, please file it
>> ...
>> you can unset the "manual" flag to "auto" again with:
>>
>> apt-mark auto $packagename
>>
>> ...in case it listed your kernel packages
>>
>> (i bet your kernel is set to manual simply because it isnt the default
>> kernel, so you most likely manually apt-get installed it after the OS
>> was installed, which would have marked it as manual)
> Hi,
>
> you're right.
>
> [weremouse at moonstudio ~]$ apt-mark showmanual|grep linux
> console-setup-linux
> libselinux1
> linux-headers-lowlatency
> linux-image-lowlatency
> linux-libc-dev
> linux-lowlatency
> util-linux
>
> I'll stay with this, but maybe for testing purpose I'll run
>
>    # apt-mark auto linux-lowlatency
>
> or do I need to run
>
>    # apt-mark auto linux-lowlatency linux-headers-lowlatency\
>      linux-image-lowlatency
>
> ?
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
>

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