Re: apt-get wants to uninstatll grub

[Tom Brown <brown@esteem.com>]

On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 22:45 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Tom Brown wrote:
> > I did an 'apt-get update/upgrade' from sarge to etch. Everything went
> > fine.
> 
> Did you 'apt-get upgrade'?  Or did you 'apt-get dist-upgrade'?  That
> is a very important distinction.  If you only did an 'upgrade' then
> you are not done yet.
> 
> > Then I wanted to upgrade my kernel. This command:
> > 
> > apt-get install linux-image-2.6.18-4-686
> > 
> > caused apt-get to want to uninstall grub and then install lilo. Why is
> > that happening?
> 
> Seems like an 'upgrade' versus 'dist-upgrade' issue to me.
> 
> You might want to install apt-show-versions and looking at the output
> of it.
> 
>   sudo apt-get install apt-show-versions
> 
>   apt-show-versions | pager
> 
> It should have interesting information.

The 'dist-upgrade' worked.

Thanks!
Tom