From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ip15.shellworld.net ([64.49.204.174] helo=server2.shellworld.net ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1G7kr0-0006kW-00 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:23:35 -0400 Received: from CHIHUAHUAL1 (adsl-70-241-123-140.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net [70.241.123.140]) by server2.shellworld.net (8.13.1/8.12.8) with SMTP id k713NXNL047805 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 03:23:33 GMT (envelope-from nick@nickgawronski.com) Message-ID: <000301c6b519$de707680$250110ac@CHIHUAHUAL1> From: "Nick Gawronski" To: Subject: removing a debian package Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:23:32 -0600 Organization: Chihuahua Radio MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8rc1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nick Gawronski , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 03:23:35 -0000 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.