removing old kernels

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:17:09 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic
<amilivojevic at pbl.ca> wrote:
> Mark Bradford wrote:
> > rpm -qa | grep kernel shows the old kernel is gone????  For some reason,
> > as I initially stated, rpm seemed to not want to remove it, but I guess
> > it did.  Thanks for the input.
> 
> If you did "rpm -e kernel", that it attempted to remove *all* three
> kernels you had installed.  I don't know what's rpm going to do in this
> case (simply exit, remove all but one (probably a random choice?),
> something else).
> 

rpm never does such random things. You will get a error specifying
that the packagename has several matches. You need to use the
--matchall switch to remove all packages with the same name. read man
rpm

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Regards,
Rahul Sundaram