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Re: upgrading kernel



On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 05:54:35PM -0400, Rubbish5@aol.com wrote:
> Hi,
> I did an upgrade recently just using apt-get --fix-broken dist-upgrade and I 
> figured this would upgrade my kernel as well.  Nope.  

kernel upgrades are independent of distribution.

> So that's my goal...  what do I do to update to the newest kernel
> Debian's got on their FTP?  

If you want to use a compiled image:

    $ apt-get install kernel-image

If you prefer to roll your own:

    $ apt-get install kernel-source

...and man make-kpkg.

> Also, as a side note, when I upgraded, kbd was held back.  I used dpkg
> -r kbd and then apt-get install kbd.  That deleted the file
> kbd-console and put in the files <something>-console (now I can't
> remember, I think it was system-console or something like that) and a
> new kbd file.  I don't even really know what kbd is, but I figured it
> would probably like to be upgraded as much as everything else.  So any
> help on that one as well is much appreciated, thanks!

kbd is a set of keyboard and console utilities.

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