On 18:09 Sun 09 Mar , Mike Bird wrote: > 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
Dear Mike, I just installed linux-image-2.6-486 as you suggested, to correspond to my new kernel 2.6.24-1-486. The apt-get install script says linux-image-2.6-486 is already the newest version. linux-image-2.6-486 is set to manually installed. 0 upgraded, 0 newly instlalled 0 to remove and 1023 not upgraded. what does the "set to manually installed mean"? Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
