On Fri 21 Nov 2025 at 15:00:39 (-0500), Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM mick.crane <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > updating and upgrading Trixie with apt there was a message about can't > > find the headers not installing modules. Reboot and X won't start with > > the new kernel. Installing the headers and re-installing the kernel > > installed the modules,likely for nvidia-driver, and seems to have solved > > the issue. > > Is there an apt line that says install the headers if going to need them > > or are you supposed to check which kernel might be installed and get the > > headers before upgrading? > > As Šarūnas said, the two packages of interest on Debian are > linux-image-amd64 and linux-headers-amd64. I even go so fars as to > apt-mark them as automatic: > > apt-get install -y linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64 > apt-mark auto linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64
Hmm. My reading of APT's autoremove is that marking these packages as auto makes them /more/ vulnerable to autoremoval, not less. According to the docs: "Packages which you have installed explicitly via install are also never proposed for automatic removal." Cheers, David.
