[nzlug] OMG, whats going on with my Ubuntu?!?

[Craig Box]

Sid Bachtiar wrote:
>> sudo apt-get install linux-386
> The system tells me that my kernel is up-to-date.

Try linux-image-386, which is a package that gets updated to depend on the
latest kernel every time. There should be a version in the security archive
that depends on -26, rather than -23:

itpartners at akarua:~$ apt-cache show linux-image-386
Package: linux-image-386
Source: linux-meta
Version: 2.6.15.24
Depends: linux-image-2.6.15-26-386
Description: Linux kernel image on 386.
 This package will always depend on the latest kernel image available
 for 386.

Package: linux-image-386
Source: linux-meta
Version: 2.6.15.22
Depends: linux-image-2.6.15-23-386
Description: Linux kernel image on 386.
 This package will always depend on the latest kernel image available
 for 386.

Make sure you have the security repositories enabled in your sources.list
and then apt-get update.  (You can do all this with the update-manager GUI
as well, if you prefer).

You might also like to remove linux-image-386 (to ensure you won't
automatically be updated on 386 kernels) and install linux-image-686 or
linux-image-k7, if you have a P4 or an Athlon respectively.

Craig