[Gllug] RH 8.0 Removing Old Kernels

[Grzegorz Jaskiewicz]

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On Wednesday 04 of June 2003 23:26, Mick Farmer wrote:
> Dear GLLUGers,
>
> The command "rpm -q kernel" yields the following.
>
> kernel-2.4.18-14
> kernel-2.4.18-19.8.0
> kernel-2.4.18-24.8.0
> kernel-2.4.18-26.8.0
> kernel-2.4.18-27.8.0
> kernel-2.4.20-13.8
> kernel-2.4.20-18.8
>
> I'd like to tidy things up by removing the older kernels.
> Will the command "rpm -e kernel-2.4.18" really work,
> i.e. will the existing symbolic links be maintained?
rpm -e 'kernel-2.4.18*' should do the job. But be carefull, becouse this can 
render your system unstable. I don't know how smart are deinstalation 
scripts.


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Grzegorz Jaskiewicz
K4 Labs
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