On Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM David Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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."
Yeah, I do that because Debian marks the packages it installs as auto. Also see `apt-mark showauto` and `apt-mark showmanual`. Jeff
