Hi Richard, On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 09:25:11PM +0100, Richard Waterbeek wrote: > Hi, > > I wrote that I searched for a '686' image but that was meant for this > VirtualBox I have, my 64Bit processor only can emulate 32Bit. > > uname -ar gave; Linux <hostname> 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.36-1 > +deb8u1 (2016-09-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux > > dpkg -l | grep linux-image gave; linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 > 3.16.36-1+deb8u1 > > I ran; sudo apt-get update, followed by sudo apt-get upgrade and that > gave; > > The following packages will be upgraded: > tzdata tzdata-java > 2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 268 kB of archives. > After this operation, 16.4 kB of additional disk space will be used. > > This seems a little unexpected to me. A real long time ago I update just > the kernel once on a Slackware machine and finished that with; > update-grub. > > I thought a sudo apt-get install linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 followed by > update-grub is sufficient to upgrade the kernel. > > So I did; sudo apt-get install, preceded by sudo apt-get upgrade and > that gave; > > linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 is already the newest version. > > And just now it is clear to me that something must be wrong, so thank > you for helping enabling me to clarify my questions. > > Hoping to hear from you what to do now.
Could you check that you have the security archive in your sources.list? Cf. https://www.debian.org/security/#keeping-secure Regards, Salvatore