Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

[Stephen Dewey <stepheneliotdewey@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On 01/15/09 16:22, Stephen Dewey wrote:
>>>
>>> Try:
>>> # apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686
>>>
>>
>> By the way, isn't this the linux image for Intel through P4? I am not
>> sure if this is the right package for me, I am running x86_64. uname-a
>> gives:
>> Linux asystems 2.6.16.29-xen #1 SMP Sun Sep 30 04:00:13 UTC 2007
>> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> Any idea how I can find the right package for 2.6.18 or newer? There
>> are a lot of packages for different architectures.
>
> This is the first thing I'd try:
>
> $ apt-cache search linux-image | grep amd64
>


Ok, so I am getting:

linux-headers-2.6.26-1-amd64 - Header files for Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64
linux-headers-2.6.26-1-openvz-amd64 - Header files for Linux
2.6.26-1-openvz-amd64
linux-headers-2.6.26-1-vserver-amd64 - Header files for Linux
2.6.26-1-vserver-amd64
linux-headers-2.6.26-1-xen-amd64 - Header files for Linux 2.6.26-1-xen-amd64
linux-image-2.6-amd64 - Linux 2.6 image on AMD64
linux-image-2.6-openvz-amd64 - Linux 2.6 image on AMD64, OpenVZ support
linux-image-2.6-vserver-amd64 - Linux 2.6 image on AMD64, Linux-VServer support
linux-image-2.6-xen-amd64 - Linux 2.6 image on AMD64, oldstyle Xen support
linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 - Linux 2.6.26 image on AMD64
linux-image-2.6.26-1-openvz-amd64 - Linux 2.6.26 image on AMD64, OpenVZ support
linux-image-2.6.26-1-vserver-amd64 - Linux 2.6.26 image on AMD64,
Linux-VServer support
linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-amd64 - Linux 2.6.26 image on AMD64, oldstyle
Xen support
linux-image-amd64 - Linux image on AMD64
linux-image-openvz-amd64 - Linux image on AMD64, OpenVZ support
linux-image-vserver-amd64 - Linux image on AMD64, Linux-VServer support
linux-image-xen-amd64 - Linux image on AMD64, oldstyle Xen support

Since I need at least 2.6.18 and it looks like my current kernel
release includes xen support, I suppose the best thing to upgrade to
would be "linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-amd64"
I'm hoping the fact that it's in my cache means it's a compatible
upgrade for my processor and system...?

Thanks again for your help...