clean out old kernel versions?

Dave Stevens geek at uniserve.com
Sun Mar 7 19:30:05 UTC 2021


On Sun,  7 Mar 2021 14:20:08 -0500 (EST)
Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

> OK, somehow (possibly a Mint installer bug) you lost that package,
> which happens to include the logic to mark old kernels for removal
> (by autoremove).
> 
> Try this:
> 
> sudo apt install linux-image-generic
> 
> and see if many (most?) of those old kernels get marked for removal,
> if not right off, then after the next kernel update.

ok, thanks. I'm currently running Colin's script which seems to be
looping, been running an hour or so. An old slow machine but even so.
At some point I'll interrupt and reboot and see what breaks.

d




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