Re: problem upgrading the kernel

[Serban Udrea <S.Udrea@gsi.de>]

Hello!

And please excuse the very late answer, some urgent matters hold me off this issue.

Johannes, thank you for your help! Nevertheless, I do not understand why apt-get does not do 
the job, why am I supposed to use aptitude, which is (if I do interpret correctly the 
apt-get manpage) a front-end to apt.

Best regards,

Serban

Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Serban Udrea wrote:
>
> > Now to my problem. I have a little server with Debian 3.1 Sarge. A few 
> > days ago I received from debian-security the message regarding 
> > problems with the 2.4.27 kernel: DSA 1097-1 New Kernel 2.4.27 packages 
> > fix several vulnerabilities. Since I have this kernel version 
> > installed I tried to upgrade but after apt-get update followed by 
> > apt-get upgrade I get:
> >
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded
> >
> > I do not understand why!? 
>
>
> See the thread entitled "mess" from yesterday/today.
>
> aptitude install kernel-image-2.4-386
>
> This will always install the latest kernel from the 2.4 tree. If your 
> machine is more recent than Pentium II, you could also use 
> kernel-image-2.4-686
>
> Johannes