Re: kernel upgrade
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.
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