Is it safe to remove linux-image-5.10.0-21-amd64, linux-image-5.10.0-23-amd64 packages? After removing some unnecessary firefox language packs with dependencies, I was prompted to autoremove a few packages that were no longer needed: hunspell-gl-es, hunspell-sv-se, linux-image-5.10.0-21-amd64, linux-image-5.10.0-23-amd64.
$ sudo apt autoremove Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: hunspell-gl-es hunspell-sv-se linux-image-5.10.0-21-amd64 linux-image-5.10.0-23-amd64 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 636 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 253674 files and directories currently installed.) Removing hunspell-gl-es (1:7.1.0~rc3-3) ... Removing hunspell-sv-se (1:7.1.0~rc3-3) ... Removing linux-image-5.10.0-21-amd64 (5.10.162-1) ... /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools: update-initramfs: Deleting /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-21-amd64 /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub: Generating grub configuration file ... Found background image: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-25-amd64 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-25-amd64 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-24-amd64 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-24-amd64 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-23-amd64 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-23-amd64 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-9-amd64 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-9-amd64 Warning: os-prober will be executed to detect other bootable partitions. Its output will be used to detect bootable binaries on them and create new boot entries. done Removing linux-image-5.10.0-23-amd64 (5.10.179-3) ... /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools: update-initramfs: Deleting /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-23-amd64 /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub: Generating grub configuration file ... Found background image: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-25-amd64 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-25-amd64 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-24-amd64 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-24-amd64 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-9-amd64 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-9-amd64 Warning: os-prober will be executed to detect other bootable partitions. Its output will be used to detect bootable binaries on them and create new boot entries. done Edit:
current packages:
$ apt list -i 'linux-image*' Listing... Done linux-image-5.10.0-24-amd64/now 5.10.179-5 amd64 [installed,local] linux-image-5.10.0-25-amd64/oldstable-security,now 5.10.191-1 amd64 [installed,automatic] linux-image-5.10.0-26-amd64/oldstable,now 5.10.197-1 amd64 [installed,automatic] linux-image-5.10.0-9-amd64/now 5.10.70-1 amd64 [installed,local] linux-image-amd64/oldstable,now 5.10.197-1 amd64 [installed] 
