Piled up kernel packages from mintupdate | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

urban minnow Oct 1, 2025, 5:25 PM

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Hi.

Today i did some system maintenance and old kernel cleanup using mintupdate. Then i checked with APT and saw that mintupdate had left a lot of orphaned tools/header packages behind when removing them that were several versions old (6.8.0-57, for example, or old HWE headers too), while those kernels vanished a long time ago from my system.

So i spent some sweet time tracking what kernels were gone and what orphaned packages remained, and i removed them using APT.

Is it just my case or does mintupdate not clean up kernels properly when asked to remove them? I might just use APT for kernel management and mintupdate for updates from now on.

agile kettle Oct 4, 2025, 2:25 PM

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urban minnow Hi. Today i did some system maintenance and old kernel cleanup using mintupdate...

Iirc kernel won't be removed unless the user do so

urban minnow Oct 4, 2025, 2:26 PM

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The packages i mentioned were from kernels that i manually removed using mintupdate. They're mostly harmless junk left by mintupdate (tools and headers)

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so i just removed them with apt

agile kettle Oct 4, 2025, 2:28 PM

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urban minnow so i just removed them with apt

U use autoremove?

urban minnow Oct 4, 2025, 2:29 PM

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autoremove didn't list them

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so plain remove/purge

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i was wondering if this is a mintupdate bug

#Piled up kernel packages from mintupdate