Removing a kernel

Christian Del Pino del.pic at verizon.net
Sun Sep 12 14:36:23 UTC 2004


Hello!

I am having some issues with the latest installed kernel on FC2,
2.6.8-1.521.

I still have the older versions of kernels installed on my system. I
would like to remove the kernel, so I entered in:

		rpm -ev kernel-2.6.8-1.521

and I get the following:

error: Failed dependencies:
kernel >= 2.4.20 is needed by (installed) iptables-1.2.9-2.3.1
kernel >= 2.2.0 is needed by (installed) libpcap-0.8.3-3
kernel >= 2.2 is needed by (installed) pciutils-2.1.99.test3-1.1
kernel >= 2.4.3 is needed by (installed) pcmcia-cs-3.2.7-1.5
kernel >= 2.4 is needed by (installed) quota-3.10-2
kernel >= 2.2.9 is needed by (installed) rp-pppoe-3.5-14
kernel >= 2.2.0 is needed by (installed) tcpdump-3.8.2-3
kernel >= 2.4.14 is needed by (installed) vconfig-1.8-2
kernel >= 2.2.14 is needed by (installed) nfs-utils-1.0.6-22
kernel-drm = 4.3.0 is needed by (installed) xorg-x11-6.7.0-5


I have been able to remove kernels on my system without any issues. Any
ideas?

Thanks!

Chris





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