kernel^W linux upgrade via apt

Daniel Robitaille robitaille at gmail.com
Thu Jan 6 23:26:33 UTC 2005


> > How does the kernel upgrade works through apt-get (aka apt-get install
> > kernel-image-xxx).
> 
> DON'T USE kernel-image-xxx   (Debian archive)
>    DO USE linux-image-xxx    (Ubuntu archive)
> 
> The 'kernel-image' packages are from the Debian archives, whereas
> 'linux-image' are the correct Ubuntu linux-kernels.

which reminds me:  I noticed this morning that this kernel package is
wrongly called "linux-xxx" on this page on the wiki:
  http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/WartyUpgradeNotes




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