Re: dpkg doesn't show newer kernel packages available?

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
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> 
> dpkg -l lists info for debs it knows about, ie. installed ones.  It


dpkg also lists packages that are not installed (2.6.21 is listed below
because I just now installed it):
$> dpkg -l linux-image-2.6.*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                Version             Description
+++-===================-===================-======================================================
pn  linux-image-2.6.15- <none>              (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.15- <none>              (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.15- <none>              (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.15- <none>              (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.15- <none>              (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.16- <none>              (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.16- <none>              (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.16- <none>              (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.16- <none>              (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.16- <none>              (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.16- <none>              (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.16- <none>              (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.16- <none>              (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.16- <none>              (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.16- <none>              (no description available)
ii  linux-image-2.6.17- 2.6.17-9            Linux 2.6.17 image on 486-class
pn  linux-image-2.6.17- <none>              (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.17- <none>              (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.17- <none>              (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.17- <none>              (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.17- <none>              (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.17- <none>              (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.17- <none>              (no description available)
ii  linux-image-2.6.18- 2.6.18-7            Linux 2.6.18 image on x86
ii  linux-image-2.6.21- 2.6.21-5            Linux 2.6.21 image on
PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4