Re: problem upgrading the kernel
Mertens Bram wrote:
Serban
Top-posting is considered bad netiquette so please see my response
below.
Mertens
Sorry, but I was never told this before.
On 2006-08-10, Serban Udrea wrote:
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Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
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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
The solution Johannes proposes is not that you should use aptitude but
rather that you should install the metapackage kernel-image-2.4-386.
So you can also use the following:
apt-get install kernel-image-2.4-386
But he specifically mentions aptitude, and no word about metapackage. The thread he
mentioned was unfortunatelly not of much help for me. Maybe I was not patient enough during
reading.
Like Johannes points out kernel-image-2.4-386 is a metapackage.
Metapackages don't really have any functionality by themselves they
are only used to make it easier to install other packages.
As I wrote earlier, I do not see in his message anything about metapackage.
If you look at the output of apt-cache show kernel-image-2.4-386 you
will notice that it does not provide anything it only depends on
another package (in this case kernel-image-2.4.27-3-386). Using
apt-cache show kernel-image-2.4.27-3-386 will show you that this is
the actual kernel. The dependency handling will make sure that you
always get the latest available kernel.
Hope this helps
For sure! Thank you very much!
Serban
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