[nmglug] Linux kernel 3.0

[Rob Haag]

It should not actually do an upgrade in distribution, but use the '-s'
switch just in case, the -s switch is for 'simulation'...won't actually
make any changes, just simulate what it 'would' do. With the -s switch, you
should see what packages it's going to affect, if it's a huge list then
something isn't right, but if it's just what is out of sync plus the
held-back packages...your probably good.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:44 PM, BrianO'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com> wrote:

> **
> Thanks Rob,
>
> I have run apt-get update but have read that your suggestion does a
> partial upgrade and that can cause issues. Is that correct? I'll do some
> more reading of the man page.
>
> Thanks again
>
> Brian
>
>
> On 01/19/2012 07:36 PM, Rob Haag wrote:
>
> I've been using the 3.0 Kernel since I upgraded to 11.10 (pretty sure
> thats when it came in). It's been stable, I'm not sure what benefits I'm
> getting from it though...maybe a better CPU scheduler? Probably loads of
> other stuff, I remember reading some stuff in Linux Pro, it had a 'list' of
> changes. Here's a detailed list http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.0
>
>  Anyhow, as far as packages that are being held back, first (as usual) do
> a 'sudo apt-get update'...then do a 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade' .., it will
> upgrade your kept packages (packages being held back). This won't upgrade
> your distribution, unless you change your sources.list to point to the new
> repository (not the recommended way of upgrading distributions though),
> this should just remove obsoleted packages and install new dependencies and
> upgrade your held back packages...of course, as always, read the before
> hitting 'Y'. Check out 'man apt-get' to get the full scoop from the man
> page..
>
>  Good luck...
>
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:01 PM, BrianO'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com>wrote:
>
>>  Hi all,
>>
>> I'm finding lots of "how-tos" on the web to install the 3.0 kernel. Is
>> this advisable as i am running Ubuntu 10.10? I am getting lots of updates
>> that I can't install in the Update Manager and I'm wondering if it's
>> because of the kernel and dependencies.
>>
>> Here's apt-get in the terminal:
>>
>> "sudo apt-get upgrade
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> The following packages have been kept back:
>>   banshee banshee-extension-soundmenu gnome-control-center grub-common
>> grub-pc
>>   grub2 gtk2-engines-pixbuf launchpad-integration libboost-all-dev
>>   libgail-common libgail-dev libgail18 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin
>> libgtk2.0-dev
>>   libical0 liblaunchpad-integration1 liblaunchpad-integration1.0-cil
>>   libplymouth2 libvmime0 linux-generic linux-headers-generic
>>   linux-image-generic mintmenu plymouth plymouth-label plymouth-x11
>>   python-launchpad-integration python-qgis python-qgis-common
>>   python-software-properties qgis qgis-common qgis-plugin-grass
>>   qgis-plugin-grass-common qgis-providers qgis-providers-common
>>   software-properties-gtk software-properties-kde tomboy
>> usb-creator-common
>>   usb-creator-gtk usb-creator-kde xchat xchat-common yelp
>> The following packages will be upgraded:
>>   libt1-5 libxml2 libxml2-dev libxml2-utils python-libxml2
>> 5 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 46 not upgraded.
>> Need to get 2,193kB of archives.
>> After this operation, 8,192B of additional disk space will be used.
>> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? "
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
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