On Sun March 9 2008 11:40:57 Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 13:57 Sun 09 Mar , Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Do you have the linus-image-2.6 meta-package installed? If you only > > have an actual linux-image deb installed, it will never be upgraded. > > The meta-package will always depend on the most recent version and will > > be updated at the time that the new version is added to the repository. > > > > The "standard" way of handling this is to use aptitude to install the > > linux-image-2.6 meta-package which will bring in everything upon which > > it depends. Once you are running the new kernel without errors, you can > > start to remove older kernels manually from within aptitude. > > I use apt not aptitude ( :( ). I am used to it. > When I try to do > apt-get install linux-image-2.6 it tell me that it is a virtual package > provided by (the long list of packages). > " You should explicitly select one to install ".
Sorry Mitchell, there was a slight mistake in the advice given to you. You should not install linux-image-2.6 but rather linux-image-2.6-486 or linux-image-2.6-686 (or one of the other variants) whichever is appropriate for your processor. This will cause future kernel security updates to be installed as expected when you "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade". --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
