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Re: i would like to know how i can upgrade to the latest kernel on debian squeeze.



On 02/05/12 03:33 PM, Joey L wrote:
I thoiught it would be easy to google - how i can upgrade to the
latest kernel on debian squeeze.

but apparently it is not as easy as i thought.
does anyone have a quick tutorial on how to do this ?

thanks
mjh


To do an upgrade:
- apt-get update
- apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade (your choice - I prefer the latter)

To upgrade to the latest kernel on kernel.org:
Not recommended! The kernel interface changes all the time. Upgrading to a later kernel than your distro was built against can cause problems. If you need a later kernel for some reason, switch to a more up-to-date distro. For example, switching from Squeeze to Wheezy is a simple matter of running:
 sed -i "s/stable/testing/g" /etc/apt/sources-list
 apt-get update
 apt-get dist-upgrade

You can also switch to Ubuntu, Linux Mint or any other distro that upgrades on a faster release cycle. However, by doing so, you will be losing out on Debian's amazing stability and reliability. The other distros are quite good, so this isn't usually a big issue, especially if you came from a Windows environment.


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