Re: Kernel updates with apt-get?

From: Scott Mohnkern (scott_at_mohnkern.com)
Date: 08/20/04

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    To: "Alec Berryman" <alec@thened.net>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:47:44 -0400

    hmmm. I've never tried "apt-get search" before....

    and it didn't work..

    Scott

    On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:10:07 -0400, Alec Berryman <alec@thened.net> wrote:

    > begin quotation of Scott Mohnkern on 2004-08-20 09:13:39 -0400:
    >
    >> should apt-get being doing kernel updates? For some reason I'm
    >> still running 2.2.
    >
    >
    > apt-get will be doing updates to your kernel; problem is, I doubt
    > there are any. The kernel packages are generally version specific;
    > for example, kernel 2.4.18 is in a different package than kerenl
    > 2.4.26. However, any fixes for 2.4.18 will result in a new version of
    > that package. `apt-get search kernel-image` to show the available
    > kernels, and then select one to install. Be careful, though, as
    > updating from a 2.2 kernel to a 2.4 kernel will be quite a change. 

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