Edward C. Jones wrote:
I have a PC with an AMD64 +3500 cpu chip. I use up-to-date debian unstable, "i386" distribution. I have two "vmlinuz"s: "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-386" and "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-2-386". The installed packages are "linux-image-2.6.12-1-386", version 2.6.12-10 and "linux-image-2.6.14-4-386" version 2.6.14-7. By default, the system boots into 2.6.14.

Why does Synaptic show 2.6.14 as being "installed (local or obsolete)"? Which kernel is the best one for me to use: "linux-image-2.6-386", linux-image-2.6-686", "linux-image-2.6-k7", etc? (I want to keep the "i386" distribution.)



in aptitude, any package that is not found on the debian servers (or other servers in your /etc/apt/sources.list) is marked as "local or obsolete" I think synaptic is doing the same: This message probably means new packages arrived on the servers and you kept using the current kernel, so it responds to this by claiming it's outdated.

HTH,

Joris


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