Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 18:25:01 +0100
From: Steve Dobson <steve.dobson@syscall.org.uk>
To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: request for advice on upgrading
Resent-Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 18:01:59 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
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