Wednesday, May 3, 2017

apt - Why does Ubuntu keep so many versions of linux-header/linux-image installed?

I have Ubuntu installed on a small partition (20 GB), so my disk space is at quite a premium. I constantly have to clear out old linux-header-* and linux-image-* packages, because they consume relatively large amounts of storage for each version (~270 MB), which really adds up when there's like 20 of them installed.



There are times when apt-get autoremove gets rid of a few of them, but it still leaves a substantial amount behind.

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