Re: can't find pae kernel after a new install
On Fri, 25 Oct 2013, Jochen Spieker wrote:
You do not need PAE with an AMD64 installation and your 64 Bit system
will not boot using a 32 Bit kernel. If you really, really want to have
a 686-PAE kernel then you need to enable multiarch.
hi Jochan,
thanks for your comments. I wanted to finish my laptop install
before replying.
I actually needed multiarch, not for the PAE kernel, but to install
some packages which are only available for i386
- xv (I don't know any other so powerful program, especially for printing)
- skype
After fighting several hours to install xv, I at last enabled multiarch
with dpkg --add-architecture i386. After that, the xv install
took about 1 minute.
What remains unexplained is that I had the 3.10-3-686-pae kernel
on my old install, and I never enabled multiarch (At that time, I even ignored
this possibility).Is there an other explanation than Alzheimer?
the installed kernel being 3.2.0-4-amd64 lot of packages I had on my old
install are now unavailable.
Not if you don't tell us which packages you are missing (except for
kernel packages).
I didn't give te list, as the number was about 280.
They were on my old install, but I discovered afterwhile that a lot of them
came from jessie (I added jessie some time ago in my old install)
I feel useful to add the following comment, even if this is off topic:
I discovered that a lot of my problems came from my obstination to use
apt-get. For example, it was strictly impossible to complete the install
of texlive, apt-get giving an inifinite loop of unmet dependencies.
Shifting to aptitude miraculously solved all problems. Nevertheless,
I found that "apt-get -f install" is still necessary in some cases,
when aptitude's only "solution" is to remove 600 packages...
best regards,
--
Pierre Frenkiel
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