[Centos] Removing older kernel packages

Shawn M. Jones smj at littleprojects.org
Wed May 26 19:59:45 UTC 2004


On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:34:08PM +0200, Taco Scargo wrote:
> Hello,

Hi Taco Scargo,
 
> I have problems removing older kernels from my Centos machines using yum.
> Can somebody tell me how to remove specific versions ?
<SNIP!> 
> 
> [root at web2 root]# yum remove kernel-2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.c0
<SNIP!>
> Erase: No matches for kernel-2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.c0
> No actions to take

I don't know about yum, but with rpm you can just do:
	rpm -e kernel-2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.c0
and that should take care of your problem.

I don't know if yum understands versions of packages.  I think it sees each individual kernel version as a different package.  I know with apt they were all stored as kernel#2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.c0 and effectively read as separate packages.

But rpm should solve your problem.

Hope this helps,

Shawn



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