dirty cow und 12.04 LTS

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 16:58:07 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 15:39:13 +0200 (CEST), Lentes, Bernd wrote:
>>http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-5195.html  
>
>From the above link:
>"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin):	ignored (end-of-life)"
>                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^
>                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>>linux-generic-lts-quantal E: Changelog download failed: 404  Not Found
>>E: Couldn't find a changelog for
>>linux-generic-lts-quantal=3.5.0.54.59  
>
>The official repositories don't provide such a package:
>http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=linux-generic-lts&searchon=names&suite=xenial&section=all
>
>They don't provide any 12.04.2 LTS, Precise Pangolin packages anymore.

:D I meant, they don't provide anything Quantal related anymore.

>
>You can't run a regular "apt-get -V dist-upgrade" without replacing
>the repositories. However, you shouldn't replace the repositories with
>those of another release, instead run "do-release-upgrade", but first
>do some research and backup everything.
>
>Regards,
>Ralf

Package: linux-generic-lts-quantal (3.5.0.54.59) is available.

Did you run "apt-get update"?

http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise-updates/linux-generic-lts-quantal