Serban Top-posting is considered bad netiquette so please see my response below.
On 2006-08-10, Serban Udrea wrote: [...] > Johannes, thank you for your help! Nevertheless, I do not understand why > apt-get does not do the job, why am I supposed to use aptitude, which is > (if I do interpret correctly the apt-get manpage) a front-end to apt. [...] > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >Serban Udrea wrote: > > > >>Now to my problem. I have a little server with Debian 3.1 Sarge. A few > >>days ago I received from debian-security the message regarding > >>problems with the 2.4.27 kernel: DSA 1097-1 New Kernel 2.4.27 packages > >>fix several vulnerabilities. Since I have this kernel version > >>installed I tried to upgrade but after apt-get update followed by > >>apt-get upgrade I get: > >> > >>0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded > >> > >>I do not understand why!? > > > > > >See the thread entitled "mess" from yesterday/today. > > > >aptitude install kernel-image-2.4-386 > > > >This will always install the latest kernel from the 2.4 tree. If your > >machine is more recent than Pentium II, you could also use > >kernel-image-2.4-686 The solution Johannes proposes is not that you should use aptitude but rather that you should install the metapackage kernel-image-2.4-386. So you can also use the following: apt-get install kernel-image-2.4-386 Like Johannes points out kernel-image-2.4-386 is a metapackage. Metapackages don't really have any functionality by themselves they are only used to make it easier to install other packages. If you look at the output of apt-cache show kernel-image-2.4-386 you will notice that it does not provide anything it only depends on another package (in this case kernel-image-2.4.27-3-386). Using apt-cache show kernel-image-2.4.27-3-386 will show you that this is the actual kernel. The dependency handling will make sure that you always get the latest available kernel. Hope this helps Bram -- # Mertens Bram "M8ram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux User #349737 # # debian testing kernel 2.6.16-2-686 i686 1024MB RAM # # 15:46:57 up 4 days, 4:43, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 # -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
