Safe way to remove old kernels

[Shane Lahey]

Hello Matthew,

Monday, July 18, 2005, 11:49:28 PM, you wrote:

MM> On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 08:45:05PM -0500, John Best wrote:
>> It appears I have been "collecting" kernels since installing FC4.  I
>> presently show 4 copies in /lib/modules all of which were installed via
>> up2date via the YUM repositories.. (Except for the initial FC4 install)
>> Is there a proper way to remove them? such as yum remove ,etc...
>> Thanks...

MM> Install the "yum-utils" package from Fedora Extras, and run:

MM>   sudo package-cleanup --oldkernels

MM> (assuming you have sudo privileges, of course).

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Im still new to Fedora Core myself, diden't realize there was a
package-cleanup.  Would it be better to use the package-cleanup rather
than 'rpm -e', or do they both do the same thing?

-- 
Best regards,
 Shane

Shane Lahey <s.lahey at nl.rogers.com>