purge-old-kernels - Man Page

remove old kernel and header packages from the system

Synopsis

purge-old-kernels

Description

This utility is now deprecated.  The functionality it used to provide should be integrated into apt(8).

If you still have old kernels lying around after this, please file a bug against apt: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+filebug

This program requires administrative access.

Example

sudo purge-old-kernels

See Also

apt-get(8)

Author

This manpage and the utility was written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, or on the web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.

Info

30 Apr 2012 byobu