[ale] Fw: HOW2 resolve aptitude conflict ? <---- ATTN:JamesSumners

[james.sumners at gmail.com (James Sumners)]

The update and upgrade was to make sure you have the latest security
updates. At this point I would suggest asking about your problem in
#debian on irc.freenode.net. Installing the kernel package should
install the necessary initrd-tools package unless you have a block on
the initrd-tools package. But I've also never installed one of
Debian's packaged kernels (other than the one during initial setup). I
tend to compile my own kernels on my Debian boxes.

You could try `apt-get install initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4.27-2-k7`,
though. You can't just remove the initrd-tools package. The kernel
package needs it.

On 10/21/06, Courtney Thomas <courtneycthomas at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> James,
>
> The upgrade and update went off w/o a hitch, but the kernel installation
> came
> back with the complaint that the kernel installation required  initrd-tools
> >= 0.1.48 but....0.1.12 is what is installed.
>
> Do you recommend simply removing initrd-tools  ?
>
> Then what, another update, upgrade, then kernel install  ?
>
> Courtney

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