-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: themuso at themuso.com ICQ: 18444344 Jabber: themuso at jabber.org.au -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEzspjjVefwtBjIM4RAt8fAJwNMQkvjMhPrcJMGBcEamKo1/4eeACg5z63 HJGNwX4RGo+ICHWGOOu66/8= =y+BI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----