purge-old-kernels(1)

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✨ purge-old-kernels — the manual, bestie edition ✨

okay so this is purge-old-kernels(1), and it lives under the byobu manual section. pull up a chair, we're gonna read the whole thing together 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

purge-old-kernels — remove old kernel and header packages from the system 🧹

like. it deletes the ancient kernel and header packages just chillin' on your machine. spring cleaning but for your boot partition, no cap.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

purge-old-kernels

that's it. that's the whole invocation. no flags, no args, just vibes (and sudo, we'll get there) ✨

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay bestie, sit down for this one because it's giving deprecated 😭

This utility is now deprecated. periodt.

the functionality it used to provide should be integrated into apt(8) now. so like, the thing this tool does? it's supposed to live inside apt itself these days.

and if you still have old kernels just lying around after all that — like they're literally haunting your system — then please file a bug against apt 🐛:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+filebug

fr fr, they wanna know.

also!! important!! this program requires administrative access 👑 meaning you need the big-girl permissions. root energy. don't try to run it as your regular little user, it will simply not work.

🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

the one (1) example, and it's iconic:

sudo purge-old-kernels

see? sudo. told you. administrative access. main character energy 🔥

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

  • apt-get(8) — go read that one too, it's the whole point of the deprecation tea ☕

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manpage and the utility itself were written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com> for Ubuntu systems — (but may be used by others). so generous, we love to see it 🫶

permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation. slay, licensing.

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in:

/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL

or on the web at:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this was purge-old-kernels(1) from the byobu manual, dated 30 Apr 2012 — yes it's old, yes it's deprecated, and yes it still ate. bye bestie, go apt instead ✨💅🌙

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