removing a debian package

[John Heim]

To list the kernel-image packages installed, do this:
dpkg --get-selections | grep kernel-image


Your kernel package might have been named linux-image-something. Replace 
kernel-image with linux-image in the command above.



Nick Gawronski said the following on 7/31/2006 10:23 PM:
> Hi, I used the make-kpkg script to build a kernel but the kernel would not 
> properly boot so I want to remove the package.  I tried typing dpkg -r 
> kernel-image, kernel, kernel-image-2.6.17.7 and dpkg says package is not 
> installed for every name I tried.  How can I remove these packages or get 
> the name that dpkg says a package is called?  I looked in /var/lib/dpkg but 
> nothing in that directory could help me. 
> 
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