On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Bob Cox wrote:
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 16:24:00 +0800, Bret Busby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hello.
We have Debian 4.0 running on one of our computers; a server of sorts.
Accessing that computer, for system updates, etc, is done through
telnet.
Running uname -a, which I understand returns the kernel version, returns
2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 GNU/Linux
In searching on the Internet, I cannot find an easy way, using apt-get,
of updating (or upgrading) the kernel, and it is clearly not
automatically done when running apt-get update followed by
apt-get-upgrade.
The GUI system update/upgrade facility on my workstation (also Debian
4.0), automatically includes kernel updates; the last one done today
(from Synaptic File -> History, "linux-image-2.6.18-6-k7
(2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch6) to 2.6.18.dfsg.1-22").
How do I get what automatically works with the GUI update/upgrade
facility, to work with a command line apt-get update then apt-get
dist-upgrade facility, to update/upgrade the kernel?
Thank you in anticipation.
To start with, could you post the output of:
cat /etc/apt/sources.list
Sorry.
Last posting was file(s) from this workstation, not from the server in
question.
cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# deb http://mirror.wa.3fl.net/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
# deb http://mirror.wa.3fl.net/debian/ etch/updates main contrib
non-free
deb http://ftp.uwa.edu.au/mirrors/linux/debian/ etch main contrib
non-free
deb http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
# deb http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing
etch/security-updates main contrib non-free
# deb http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
# deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
#deb http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
#deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
#deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
and, if it exists, this one:
cat /etc/apt/preferences
If these are ok, one other possibility is that the kernel package is on
'hold'. Try this:
aptitude search ~ahold
cat /etc/apt/preferences
cat: /etc/apt/preferences: No such file or directory
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