[clug] Removing older kernels

[Scott Ferguson]

On 15/08/15 16:09, Bryan Kilgallin wrote:
> Thanks, Scott:
> 
>> Are you running Ubuntu 14.04.3 (Trusty Tahr)?
>> lsb_release -d
> 
> No, that reported as follows.
> Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS

OK.... you seem to be mixing releases (not necessarily a bad thing).
Please work your way through my responses below.

> 
> My PC has processor: Intel® Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz. Which is
> reportedly 32-bit.

Offhand I don't know.
To check run the following - if the response is "lm" then your CPU
supports 64-bit:-
grep -ow 'lm' /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u


NOTE: 64-bit is not necessarily better (it's a matter of context).

> And therefore unable to run Ubuntu 14.04.

Oh Reilly? ;)
You have been misinformed. Trusty Tahr *is* available in 32-bit (which
you should have noticed anyway given that you *are* running the kernel
from that release.

> 
>> If not ignore the following.
> 
> I take that to mean the entirety of the remainder of your message.

That is correct.

> 
> I had been hoping to recover space.


You still can. There are also other ways of doing that.


What is the output of:-
df -h

What is the output of:-
deborphan

What is the output of:-
du -h /var/cache/apt/archives

What is the output of:-
cat /etc/apt/sources.list{,.d/*}|grep '^[^$\|^#\|^\s*\#]'|sed 's/^ deb/deb/'

What is the output of:-
for i in /etc/apt/preferences{,.d/*};do echo $i;cat $i;echo " ";done



Kind regards