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What is the best way to uninstall old kernels in Ubuntu 9.10? Thanks in advance for your advice.
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[SOLVED] How to uninstall old kernels?
What is the best way to uninstall old kernels in Ubuntu 9.10? Thanks in advance for your advice.
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Unless they've changed something since I last ran Ubuntu, you used to be able to select old kernels in synaptic and uninstall them, or you could use apt from the command line to remove them.
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Thanks, Ozar. Does it make much difference which method you use to uninstall old kernels?
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Most new users to Linux will probably find removing them with synaptic the easier method but the outcome should be the same.
Don't know if it will be of any use to you, but here's an article I found in the Ubuntu wiki regarding old kernel removal:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/removing-old-kernelsoz
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Do you have ATI/Nvidia Graphics Card? Note that you have to re-install Proprietary driver again on every kernel upgrade.
For old kernel removal, just open Synaptic Package Manager and search image. Remove all images except latest. Synaptic will autoremove other packages which had been installed as dependencies of older kernels.
It the simplest way to un-install kernel.It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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sudo apt-get remove linux-generic linux-headers-2.6.28-18 linux-headers- 2.6.28-18-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-2.6.28-18-generic linux-image-generic
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That command will work only if you have 2.6.28-18 version of kernel and is not being used by OS.
Originally Posted by ultimatelinux 
As I mentioned earlier, easiest way is use Synaptic for Package Removal.
You can find existing kernels in /boot folder or apt-cache search command.It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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If you instal ubuntu-tweak among many other tasks it will clear out old kernels for you. I don't think it's in the regular repos but you can google it or there's a launchpad repo for it.
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Thanks to everyone for contributing to this thread. This is excellent feedback to my original question.
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