Re: unable to upgrade kernel

[Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>]

On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 09:25:51 -0400 (EDT), François Patte wrote:
> 
> I don't understand the following:
> 
> # apt-get install linux-image-3.14-0.bpo.1-amd64 linux-headers-3.14-0.bpo.1-amd64
> 
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  linux-image-3.14-0.bpo.1-amd64 : Breaks: initramfs-tools (< 0.110~)
> but 0.109.1 is to be installed
>                                   Breaks: initramfs-tools:i386 (< 0.110~)
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> 
> What exactly is the problem about initramfs:
> 
> # apt-cache show initramfs-tools
> 
> Package: initramfs-tools
> Version: 0.109.1

The problem is that the kernel you want to install requires a newer
version of initramfs-tools than the one you currently have installed,
but apt-get cannot upgrade to a newer version of initramfs-tools.

Since you are trying to install a 3.14 kernel from backports, I assume
that you are running wheezy.  You need to install the initramfs-tools
package from wheezy-backports too, version 0.115~bpo70+1, I think.

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