[SOLVED] Cleaning up Proxmox 3.x->4->5 upgrade path

[Archmatux]

Hi All,

My oldest Proxmox server has been upgraded starting somewhere in the 3.x's.

The upgrade from 3.x to 4.0 was done some time ago when I was less experienced with Proxmox.
The server has since been upgraded to 5.0.

Consequently there is a bit of a mess of packages I would like to clean up.

From the following, are the packages safe to remove?

root@hpv-01:~# sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  acl corosync-pve cpp-4.9 docutils-common docutils-doc libalgorithm-c3-perl libarchive-extract-perl
  libb-hooks-endofscope-perl libbind9-90 libboost-iostreams1.55.0 libcgi-fast-perl libcgi-pm-perl
  libclass-c3-perl libclass-c3-xs-perl libclass-method-modifiers-perl libclass-xsaccessor-perl libcloog-isl4
  libcpan-changes-perl libcpan-meta-perl libdata-optlist-perl libdata-perl-perl libdata-section-perl
  libdevel-caller-perl libdevel-globaldestruction-perl libdevel-lexalias-perl libdns-export100 libdns100
  libefivar0 libexporter-tiny-perl libfcgi-perl libfile-slurp-perl libgetopt-long-descriptive-perl libicu52
  libimport-into-perl libirs-export91 libisc-export95 libisc95 libisccc90 libisccfg-export90 libisccfg90
  libisl10 libjasper1 liblcms2-2 liblist-moreutils-perl liblog-message-perl liblog-message-simple-perl
  liblognorm1 liblua5.2-0 liblwres90 libmodule-build-perl libmodule-implementation-perl
  libmodule-load-conditional-perl libmodule-pluggable-perl libmodule-runtime-perl libmodule-signature-perl
  libmoo-perl libmoox-handlesvia-perl libmro-compat-perl libmysqlclient18 libnamespace-autoclean-perl
  libnamespace-clean-perl libntdb1 libpackage-constants-perl libpackage-stash-perl libpackage-stash-xs-perl
  libpaper-utils libpaper1 libparams-classify-perl libparams-util-perl libparams-validate-perl
  libpath-tiny-perl libperl4-corelibs-perl libpod-latex-perl libpod-markdown-perl libpod-readme-perl libprocps3
  libprotobuf9 libpsl0 libregexp-common-perl librole-tiny-perl libsoftware-license-perl libstrictures-perl
  libsub-exporter-perl libsub-exporter-progressive-perl libsub-identify-perl libsub-install-perl
  libsub-name-perl libterm-ui-perl libtext-template-perl libtry-tiny-perl libtype-tiny-perl
  libtype-tiny-xs-perl libunicode-utf8-perl libvariable-magic-perl libwebp5 libwebp6 libwebpdemux1
  libwebpdemux2 libwebpmux1 libwebpmux2 libxtables10 netcat6 python-cffi python-docutils python-ndg-httpsclient python-pil python-ply python-pycparser python-pygments python-roman
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 110 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 80.4 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
^C

Pveversion is as follows:

I will be removing the older kernels.

root@hpv-01:~# pveversion -v
proxmox-ve: 5.0-15 (running kernel: 4.10.15-1-pve)
pve-manager: 5.0-23 (running version: 5.0-23/af4267bf)
pve-kernel-4.4.35-2-pve: 4.4.35-79
pve-kernel-4.4.13-2-pve: 4.4.13-58
pve-kernel-4.4.24-1-pve: 4.4.24-72
pve-kernel-4.4.10-1-pve: 4.4.10-54
pve-kernel-4.4.62-1-pve: 4.4.62-88
pve-kernel-4.4.19-1-pve: 4.4.19-66
pve-kernel-4.2.3-2-pve: 4.2.3-22
pve-kernel-4.2.6-1-pve: 4.2.6-36
pve-kernel-4.4.6-1-pve: 4.4.6-48
pve-kernel-4.4.49-1-pve: 4.4.49-86
pve-kernel-4.10.15-1-pve: 4.10.15-15
pve-kernel-4.4.35-1-pve: 4.4.35-77
pve-kernel-4.4.21-1-pve: 4.4.21-71
pve-kernel-4.4.13-1-pve: 4.4.13-56
pve-kernel-4.4.15-1-pve: 4.4.15-60
pve-kernel-4.2.2-1-pve: 4.2.2-16
pve-kernel-4.4.44-1-pve: 4.4.44-84
pve-kernel-4.2.8-1-pve: 4.2.8-41
pve-kernel-4.4.16-1-pve: 4.4.16-64
pve-kernel-4.4.67-1-pve: 4.4.67-92
pve-kernel-4.4.59-1-pve: 4.4.59-87
pve-kernel-4.4.8-1-pve: 4.4.8-52
libpve-http-server-perl: 2.0-5
lvm2: 2.02.168-pve2
corosync: 2.4.2-pve3
libqb0: 1.0.1-1
pve-cluster: 5.0-10
qemu-server: 5.0-12
pve-firmware: 2.0-2
libpve-common-perl: 5.0-16
libpve-guest-common-perl: 2.0-11
libpve-access-control: 5.0-5
libpve-storage-perl: 5.0-12
pve-libspice-server1: 0.12.8-3
vncterm: 1.5-2
pve-docs: 5.0-6
pve-qemu-kvm: 2.9.0-2
pve-container: 2.0-14
pve-firewall: 3.0-1
pve-ha-manager: 2.0-2
ksm-control-daemon: 1.2-2
glusterfs-client: 3.8.8-1
lxc-pve: 2.0.8-3
lxcfs: 2.0.7-pve2
criu: 2.11.1-1~bpo90
novnc-pve: 0.6-4
smartmontools: 6.5+svn4324-1
zfsutils-linux: 0.6.5.9-pve16~bpo90
openvswitch-switch: 2.7.0-2

 

[wolfgang]

Hi,

I will be removing the older kernels.

No you have to remove them manually

apt-get remove pve-kernel-4.2.2-1-pve

 

[tom]

I suggest you run:

> apt install proxmox-ve (this will make sure that you do not remove important packages, just to be sure)
> apt autoremove

 

[Archmatux]

Cheers guys.

All cleaned up with no problems.