Hello! On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 03:54:26PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 03:48:29PM -0400, David Piniella wrote: > > I'm running 2.4 now and would like to /try/ to get 2.6 on my > > machine. I've had problems with apt-getting images, but doing an > > "apt-cache search kernel" showed me a package "kernel-tree-2.6.5" -- > > will this install the kernel or try to patch an existing 2.6 kernel or > > something else? How can I find this out without installing the package? > > > on my UNSTABLE system this is the output of 'apt-cache search kernel': > [...snip 50k of output...] Thanks, now everybody can recheck their output of that apt-cache command. 50k of unnecessary output, about 2200 subscribers plus newsgroup, you get the number... ;) David, try 'apt-cache show <packagename>' to get further info, please see the Debian Reference as well as the rest of the fine documentation for details (<http://www.debian.org/doc/). If you want a pre-built kernel you should install one of the kernel-image packages. If you want to roll your own you'll need one of the others, please check their descriptions. Cheers, Flo
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