Synaptic

[Santiago Erquicia]

Just install the package linux-image-k7 that will always update to the
latest kernel.

I think that there was a bug fixed in the installation that should
install this package instead of one specific version.

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 23:52 +0200, Super Donkey wrote:
> I was just looking at the wiki for synaptic and I didn't find the
> information that I got from this mailinglist and experience (this is my
> first debian based distro btw).
> 
> That knowledge is that if possible you avoid packages in synaptic with
> version numbers and for example in my case use linux-k7 and
> linux-k7-headers to get always the latest instead of
> linix-2.6.x.x.x-chipset.
> 
> I just had this issue when I wanted to install a python application called
> Notemeister. It needed the python-dev files to compile. Synaptic showed
> many versions of python and related files. But I noticed that downloading
> python-dev would get me the lastest files. And will always when doing an
> upgrade.
> 
> ---
> I would add this to the wiki if I knew how. Maybe some one else can.
> 
> 
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