Ubuntu 14.04 apt-get problem...

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Freitag, den 26.10.2018, 13:38 -0400 schrieb Robert Heller:
> 
> apt-get dist-upgrade no longer picks up new kernels automagically --
> I have to 
> *manually* update the kernels (apt-get dist-upgrade linux-
> <mumble>...) and now 
> I have to manually remove the older kernels (apt-get autoremove no
> longer 
> removes the older kernels).  I cannot find where this setting was set
> so I can 
> unset it.

your purging most likely removed the most top level meta package which
is actually responsible for most of the update behaviour you are
missing, just install it again:

sudo apt-get install linux-generic

ciao
	oli
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