Re: [TCLUG:18669] Debian Question...

["Kevin R. Bullock" <kbullock@ringworld.org>]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Mike Hicks wrote:

> I just started tinkering with Debian on a small box I have..  An old
> pentium that I want to put DVD decoder in ;-)  Anyway, I've updated it
> to potato, but the kernel is still 2.0.38..  Is there a way to upgrade
> that with apt-get or something?  This doesn't seem to be working by just
> typing `apt get upgrade kernel-image' or any other kernel-*

yeah. umm. that's 'cuz the name of the package is
kernel-image-2.2.<something>. e.g.:

root@host ~ # apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.14

and for reference, apt-get upgrade doesn't take any arguments. if you want
to upgrade a particular package, use apt-get install.

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Kevin R. Bullock