removing a debian package

removing a debian package

[Nick Gawronski]

Hi, I used the make-kpkg script to build a kernel but the kernel would not 
properly boot so I want to remove the package.  I tried typing dpkg -r 
kernel-image, kernel, kernel-image-2.6.17.7 and dpkg says package is not 
installed for every name I tried.  How can I remove these packages or get 
the name that dpkg says a package is called?  I looked in /var/lib/dpkg but 
nothing in that directory could help me. 

Re: removing a debian package

[Luke Yelavich]

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On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 01:23:32PM EST, Nick Gawronski wrote:
> Hi, I used the make-kpkg script to build a kernel but the kernel would not 
> properly boot so I want to remove the package.  I tried typing dpkg -r 
> kernel-image, kernel, kernel-image-2.6.17.7 and dpkg says package is not 
> installed for every name I tried.  How can I remove these packages or get 
> the name that dpkg says a package is called?  I looked in /var/lib/dpkg but 
> nothing in that directory could help me. 

You can simply use apt-get to remove it. You The name of the package is 
everything up to the first _ (Underscore) character.

hth
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Re: removing a debian package

[Nick Gawronski]

Hi, I did this and recompiled the kernel and noticed that when I start the 
system no speakup commands work.  the numpad features don't work as they did 
on the stock sarge speakup kernel.  How do I go back to booting the old 2.4 
kernel so I can fix the issue?  What could the issue possibley be?
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From: "Luke Yelavich" <themuso@themuso.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: removing a debian package


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> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 01:23:32PM EST, Nick Gawronski wrote:
>> Hi, I used the make-kpkg script to build a kernel but the kernel would 
>> not
>> properly boot so I want to remove the package.  I tried typing dpkg -r
>> kernel-image, kernel, kernel-image-2.6.17.7 and dpkg says package is not
>> installed for every name I tried.  How can I remove these packages or get
>> the name that dpkg says a package is called?  I looked in /var/lib/dpkg 
>> but
>> nothing in that directory could help me.
>
> You can simply use apt-get to remove it. You The name of the package is
> everything up to the first _ (Underscore) character.
>
> hth
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> Luke Yelavich
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Re: removing a debian package

[John Heim]

To list the kernel-image packages installed, do this:
dpkg --get-selections | grep kernel-image


Your kernel package might have been named linux-image-something. Replace 
kernel-image with linux-image in the command above.



Nick Gawronski said the following on 7/31/2006 10:23 PM:
> Hi, I used the make-kpkg script to build a kernel but the kernel would not 
> properly boot so I want to remove the package.  I tried typing dpkg -r 
> kernel-image, kernel, kernel-image-2.6.17.7 and dpkg says package is not 
> installed for every name I tried.  How can I remove these packages or get 
> the name that dpkg says a package is called?  I looked in /var/lib/dpkg but 
> nothing in that directory could help me. 
> 
> 
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