From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu ([144.92.166.194]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1G7wTN-0007J9-00 for ; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:47:57 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AC3674307; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 10:47:27 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mta1 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 15049-13; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 10:47:25 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mailhost.math.wisc.edu (lcyoung.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.90]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72A4B740EA; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 10:47:25 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [144.92.166.75] (vv507j.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.75]) by mailhost.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 691A9100452; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 10:47:25 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <44CF778D.9070205@math.wisc.edu> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:47:25 -0500 From: John Heim Organization: UW-Madison Department of Mathematics User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Gawronski , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: removing a debian package References: <000301c6b519$de707680$250110ac@CHIHUAHUAL1> In-Reply-To: <000301c6b519$de707680$250110ac@CHIHUAHUAL1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UWMath-MailScanner: amavisd-new at math.wisc.edu X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8rc1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jheim@math.wisc.edu, "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 15:47:57 -0000 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- John Heim 263-4189 / jheim@math.wisc.edu / http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/