Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?
On 07/05/11 08:11 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> KS:
>>
>> Surprisingly, dpkg does not show 2.6.38 whereas apt says that it exists!
>
> Dpkg doesn't know packages that were never installed. Apt does.
>
> J.
Ah, didn't realize that.
However, I did an update just around the time I saw the reply and apt is
not able to find the 2.6.38-2-686-bigmem (for for that matter 2.6.38-2)
either! It exists on packages.debian.org though.
KS.
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$> apt-cache search linux-image
nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-486 - NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux
2.6.32-5-486
nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-686 - NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux
2.6.32-5-686
nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-amd64 - NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux
2.6.32-5-amd64
nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-vserver-686 - NVIDIA binary kernel module for
Linux 2.6.32-5-vserver-686
nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-vserver-686-bigmem - NVIDIA binary kernel module
for Linux 2.6.32-5-vserver-686-bigmem
nvidia-kernel-2.6.37-2-686-bigmem - NVIDIA binary kernel module for
Linux 2.6.37-2-686-bigmem
nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem - NVIDIA binary kernel module for
Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem
linux-headers-2.6.37-2-486 - Header files for Linux 2.6.37-2-486
linux-image-2.6.37-2-686-bigmem - Linux 2.6.37 for PCs with 4GB+ RAM
linux-headers-2.6.37-2-686-bigmem - Header files for Linux
2.6.37-2-686-bigmem
nvidia-kernel-2.6.37-1-686-bigmem - NVIDIA binary kernel module for
Linux 2.6.37-1-686-bigmem
linux-image-2.6.37-2-686 - Linux 2.6.37 for modern PCs
alsa-base - ALSA driver configuration files
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