Hi, I'm using Ubuntu and I just unistalled linux-image and linux-image-generic packages via APT.

Now I see that there's some older kernel installed which takes up unnecesary space, but doing this: apt-get autoremove linux-image-3.* warns about removing all this:

rda grub-common grub-gfxpayload-lists grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub2-common iw libfuse2 libnl-3-200 libnl-genl-3-200 linux-image-3.2.0-24-generic linux-image-3.2.0-25-generic linux-image-3.2.0-26-generic os-prober wireless-crda wireless-regdb

If I understand correctly, the distro's own kernel and grub are not used unless you're using pv-grub, which I believe is not my case.

But I'm curious if those packages are safe to remove because I would not like to ruin my production linode

Removing those packages shouldn't cause any issues, especially in the case of wireless packages and grub, which are just unnecessary bloat

edit: check what the packages you don't know of do (in the case of rda and others) just in case you might need them for something

Thank you, turns our that it was not rda but crda found it's " Wireless Central Regulatory Domain Agent " which is related to wireless at my best guess.


I'm still in doubt with libfuse2 which describes itself as "Filesystem in Userspace (library)"

But as far as I know I'm not using fuse (no NTFS filesystems at least) but I guess if it's affected then it should not have to have any dependence left.

Now, what worries me the most is libnl-3-200 and libnl-genl-3-200 which describes as "library for dealing with netlink sockets"

Are these last two packages needed for correct operation of the server?.