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Debian 11 Kernel upgrade to version 5.16

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Debian 11 Kernel upgrade to version 5.16

#1 Post by vryni »

Yesterday, i performed a kernel upgrade to version 5.16
on my Debian 11 desktop

Having made a following update (sudo apt update)
i got the this notice :

7 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them

and then :

Listing... Done
gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0/stable-security 2.36.6-1~deb11u1 amd64 [upgradable from: 2.36.4-1~deb11u1]
gir1.2-webkit2-4.0/stable-security 2.36.6-1~deb11u1 amd64 [upgradable from: 2.36.4-1~deb11u1]
libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18/stable-security 2.36.6-1~deb11u1 amd64 [upgradable from: 2.36.4-1~deb11u1]
libsnmp-base/stable-security 5.9+dfsg-4+deb11u1 all [upgradable from: 5.9+dfsg-3]
libsnmp40/stable-security 5.9+dfsg-4+deb11u1 amd64 [upgradable from: 5.9+dfsg-3+b1]
libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37/stable-security 2.36.6-1~deb11u1 amd64 [upgradable from: 2.36.4-1~deb11u1]
linux-image-amd64/stable-security 5.10.136-1 amd64 [upgradable from: 5.10.127-2]


I am clueless about the significance of this output

Looks like i messed up

What have i done wrong ?

What do you suggest ?

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Re: Debian 11 Kernel upgrade to version 5.16

#2 Post by sunrat »

These are normal security upgrades. You just need to run as root or sudo

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apt upgrade
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Probably you have unattended-upgrades running so don't usually need to run it manually.

Where did you get kernel 5.16 from? Backports I hope!
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Re: Debian 11 Kernel upgrade to version 5.16

#3 Post by vryni »

I went along with the security upgrades and it went well

but i don't understand why the following upgrade was included ?

linux-image-amd64/stable-security 5.10.136-1 amd64 [upgradable from:

5.10.127-2]

Why was the above 5.10 kernel security upgrade performed

why was it necessary when kernel 5.16 was already installed... ?

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Re: Debian 11 Kernel upgrade to version 5.16

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vryni wrote: 2022-08-17 11:14but i don't understand why the following upgrade was included ?

linux-image-amd64/stable-security 5.10.136-1 amd64 [upgradable from:

5.10.127-2]

Why was the above 5.10 kernel security upgrade performed

why was it necessary when kernel 5.16 was already installed... ?
Because you have the package linux-image-amd64 from stable installed. It's a metapackage which always depends on the latest stable kernel.
It's a good idea to keep at least one older kernel in case your active one has issues (rare but more than never). If you have the current backports kernel installed, which I guess you do although you didn't answer that, you can install the linux-image-amd64 metapackage from backports instead to always have the latest backports kernel installed whenever upgrades are performed.
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Re: Debian 11 Kernel upgrade to version 5.16

#5 Post by vryni »

You guessed right

Thank you for your feedback

I intend to study it thoroughly

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