apt-get -fy install $(apt-cache depends linux-image-amd64/bookworm-security|grep Depends|sed \'s/.*ends:\ //\' | tr '\n' ' ')
Your system probably won't delete older unused stable kernels automatically then.
Regards,
Jan
Resources
https://askubuntu.com/questions/74478/how-to-install-only-the-dependencies-of-a-package
02.06.2024 01:40, Johan Kröckel wrote:
> My use case is:
>
> Run the up-to-date backports kernel and always have the up-to-date stable kernel as fallback installed, since the backports kernel sometimes changes
> drastically and is not as tested as the stable kernel. The thing is: it's nice to have the new features of the bpo kernel but in the end, I need to
> work: run bpo-kernel -> nice -> upgrade with problems -> doesn't matter, reboot, stable kernel -> keep on working.
So if there's an issue with bpo kernel (bpo is what you usually use), you switch back to
the previously running bpo kernel which worked. Problem solved.
> I don't think the "you can run only one kernel, so why have more than one installed?" argument does not hold, because I think it's good practice to
> keep the last kernel installed as a fallback as well. Yes, I run only one, but I have two installed anyway, so why not four?
Apt only keeps 2.
/mjt