Re: [Hampshire] Debian Update?

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Author: Adam Trickett
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Debian Update?

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On Thursday 06 September 2007 14:21, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
> On my Debian 4.0 r1 system, the "update available" symbol is displayed.
> When I click on this, I get the message:
>
> "You can install 1 update
> linux-image-2.6.18-5-686..." (...etc.)
>
> However, if I try to install it, I'm informed "The kernel version running
> is the same as the one being installed."
>
> How can this happen? It means that the "update available" symbol is
> displayed permanently and I have to check periodically to see if
> there really is something new.


I've seen this with the kernel before, and I usually plough on and install
anyway. I'm not 100% what causes the error but it's bogus. The best thing to
do is just install anyway with aptitude. This came up on the Debian
Administration site recently, see:

http://www.debian-administration.org/users/oxtan/weblog/13#comments


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Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK

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