removing a debian package

[Luke Yelavich]

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On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 01:23:32PM EST, Nick Gawronski wrote:
> 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. 

You can simply use apt-get to remove it. You The name of the package is 
everything up to the first _ (Underscore) character.

hth
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