On 26/06/08 04:27, Phillip Susi wrote: > Onno Benschop wrote: >> Hi, >> >> A recent update to the kernel in my Gutsy laptop, from 2.6.22-14.21 to >> 2.6.22-15.54, prompted by Update Manager has caused VMware to stop >> working. >> >> This is likely because the vmware modules have not yet been updated from >> 2.6.22-14 to 2.6.22-15. I've lodged a bug about this: >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/242505 >> >> My question is this: >> >> * How is it possible that this update was installed at all? Isn't >> this exact issue the reason we have dependencies at all? > > Because the kernel does not depend on vmware. If you installed vmware > from a package ( not in the repositories ) then that package must not > be configured to properly depend on a specific kernel version. > VMware was installed from the gutsy partner repositories.
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