From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from vscan02.westnet.com.au ([203.10.1.132]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1G7kv2-0006pf-00 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:27:44 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id B02F911CACE for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 11:27:42 +0800 (WST) Received: from vscan02.westnet.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vscan02.westnet.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 15255-16 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 11:27:42 +0800 (WST) Received: from themuso.com (dsl-202-173-132-131.nsw.westnet.com.au [202.173.132.131]) by vscan02.westnet.com.au (Postfix) with SMTP id 558EE11CD73 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 11:27:42 +0800 (WST) Received: (nullmailer pid 11775 invoked by uid 1000); Tue, 01 Aug 2006 03:28:35 -0000 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 13:28:35 +1000 From: Luke Yelavich To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: removing a debian package Message-ID: <20060801032835.GA11737@themuso.com> References: <000301c6b519$de707680$250110ac@CHIHUAHUAL1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000301c6b519$de707680$250110ac@CHIHUAHUAL1> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8rc1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "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 03:27:44 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: themuso@themuso.com ICQ: 18444344 Jabber: themuso@jabber.org.au -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEzspjjVefwtBjIM4RAt8fAJwNMQkvjMhPrcJMGBcEamKo1/4eeACg5z63 HJGNwX4RGo+ICHWGOOu66/8= =y+BI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----