Re: kernel upgrade
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 10:42:52AM +0200, Nemeth Gyorgy wrote:
> 2014-03-29 22:29 keltezéssel, Stephen Allen írta:
> >> Do you have linux-image-amd64 installed? If not, install it. It always
> >> depends on the latest kernel so if there is a newer kernel, it will be
> >> installed automatically (if you do dist-upgrade).
> >>
> >
> > Actually a 'dist-upgrade' isn't necessary, plain old 'upgrade' will
> > install the latest kernel for the applicable distro assuming of course
> > that the meta package is installed.
>
> Are you sure?
> When the kernel version number changes, the
> linux-image-<versionnumber>-amd64.deb will be a new package.
>
> Plain apt-get upgrade upgrades the installed packages only and does not
> install new package. But in this case the linux-image-xxxx is a new
> package so upgrade will not install it.
What Brad said .... :)
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