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| From | Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> |
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| Subject | Re: Deleting old Kernels. |
| Date | Sun, 10 May 2026 03:36:13 -0000 (UTC) |
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On Sat, 9 May 2026 12:18:51 +0200, jjb wrote:
> #1. Find all installed kernels
> @lines = `dpkg --list | grep -i 'linux-image'`;
> foreach (@lines) {
> if (/^ii\s+linux-image-(\d[\S]+)/) {
> push (@kernels, $1);
> }
> }
You can ask the dpkg commands for exactly the info you need, to save
parsing out unwanted cruft. Here’s what I came up with in Python:
import subprocess
kernel_list = subprocess.check_output \
(
args = ("dpkg-query", "-f" "${Package}\n", "-W", "*linux-image*"),
text = True
).split("\n")[:-1]
print(kernel_list)
Here’s (partial) output on my Debian Unstable system:
['linux-image-6.1.0-8-amd64', 'linux-image-6.1.0-8-amd64-unsigned',
'linux-image-6.1.0-9-amd64', 'linux-image-6.1.0-9-amd64-unsigned',
'linux-image-6.10.11-amd64', 'linux-image-6.10.11-amd64-unsigned' ...
'linux-image-6.9.10-amd64', 'linux-image-6.9.10-amd64-unsigned',
'linux-image-amd64', 'linux-image-generic']
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