[Techtalk] Cleaning up after Red Hat kernel upgrades

Dan Richter daniel.richter at wimba.com
Mon Jul 28 14:39:28 EST 2003


>You need to run an rpm query command (can someone help out here, is it
>"rpm -qa kernel" ?)

The command is "rpm -q kernel" (query the database for kernel packages). 
Another option is "rpm -qa | grep kernel" (query all modules, grep for the 
kernel).

>This will list all the kernel packages to install.

You mean uninstall. ("rpm -q" returns only modules that are already installed.)

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