mike@mike-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-restricted-modules-$(uname -r) Password: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: dia-libs libmysqlclient15-dev democracyplayer-data dia-gnome libdbus-glib-1-dev dia-common libboost-python1.33.1 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: linux-386* linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-15-386* linux-restricted-modules-386* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 43.1MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 164377 files and directories currently installed.) Removing linux-386 ... Removing linux-restricted-modules-386 ... Removing linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-15-386 ... Purging configuration files for linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-15-386 ... mike@mike-desktop:~$