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Re: request for advice on upgrading



Hi Don

On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 11:03 -0500, Don Montgomery wrote:
> I only began using debian with amd64.  What is the debian 
> way to find and install a 486 kernel image?

From the command line:
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Before you start issue:

	apt-get update

To download any patches from the archive.  If you want then a
	apt-get upgrade
Will install any newer versions of packages.  If a package has a new
dependency then 
	apt-get dist-upgrade
is what you want.

The command:
	apt-cache search <keyword>
will look for matches in the package database. To install them:
	apt-get install <package-name>

GUI
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If your a GUI user then take a look at the "Synaptic Package Manager" it
has buttons for searching and (dist-)upgrading.

Steve

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