I belive I've encountered this before and discovered that packages that refuse to be installed using apt-get can be installed using aptitude. Might want to give that a try first.
Cheers, Carlo -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Gray Sent: Tuesday, 14 March 2006 10:59 AM To: SLUG Subject: [SLUG] Ubuntu Kernel Updates Some may have seen the latest Ubuntu Security Notice (USN-263-1) which requires a new kernel. Now like many, I like my systems to run as slick as possible and I've manually installed a 686 kernel on my lappy and uninstalled every other "linux-image*" package. This is a problem. Because the new kernel is a new package (not just a version increment) it wont be installed with an "apt-get upgrade" or even and "apt-get dist-upgrade". This problem burnt me when I went from Hoary->Breezy on my AMD64 machine too; the underlying system was upgraded but not the kernel. All manner of freaky juju then occurred until I manually grabbed Breezy's kernel, then balance was restored to the force. ;) There is an EASY solution though! There are a number of meta-packages that *always* depend on the latest kernel for a given architecture: linux-image-386 linux-image-686 ... etc Here's (a subset) of what apt has to say about the linux-image-686 package: Package: linux-image-686 Source: linux-meta Version: 2.6.12.16 Depends: linux-image-2.6.12-9-686 Description: Linux kernel image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV. This package will always depend on the latest kernel image available for Pentium Pro/Celeron/Pentium II/Pentium III/Pentium IV. As these are updated to depend on the new kernel, when a new kernel is released you get it by virtue of the meta package's dependence on it. See how it works? Just thought with the looming release of Ubuntu 6.04 (Dapper Drake) and the recent security update, I'd share my (limited) insights to the wonderful world of apt on Ubuntu :) (BTW - I'm pretty sure Debian does things the same way, just double check the package names). Cheers, James -- I didn't get sophisticated -- I just got tired. But maybe that's what sophisticated is -- being tired. -- Rita Gain -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
