Ubuntu – Do I need linux-libc-dev and libc6-dev

13.04dependencieskernelpackage-management

I removed the stock 3.8.0-19-generic kernel (and meta packages for the stock ubuntu kernel) and installed the 3.9 mainline kernel, do I need these 2 packages or can I remove them? 

~$ apt-cache policy linux-libc-dev
linux-libc-dev:
  Installed: 3.8.0-19.29
  Candidate: 3.8.0-19.30
  Version table:
     3.8.0-19.30 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-security/main amd64 Packages
 *** 3.8.0-19.29 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
~$ apt-cache policy libc6-dev
libc6-dev:
  Installed: 2.17-0ubuntu5
  Candidate: 2.17-0ubuntu5
  Version table:
 *** 2.17-0ubuntu5 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I completely removed (aka purged) all of these:
linux-generic linux-image-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-extra-3.8.0-19-generic linux-image-3.8.0-19-generic linux-headers-3.8.0-19-generic linux-headers-3.8.0-19

Best Answer

You probably need them to compile drivers by using DKMS (NVIDIA proprietary drivers do that). Otherwise, you're fine.

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