Ubuntu 14.04 apt-get problem...

[Tom H]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 8:26 PM Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 26.10.2018, 13:38 -0400 schrieb Robert Heller:
>>
>> apt-get dist-upgrade no longer picks up new kernels automagically --
>> I have to *manually* update the kernels (apt-get dist-upgrade linux-
>> <mumble>...) and now I have to manually remove the older kernels
>> (apt-get autoremove no longer removes the older kernels). I cannot
>> find where this setting was set so I can unset it.
>
> your purging most likely removed the most top level meta package which
> is actually responsible for most of the update behaviour you are
> missing, just install it again:
>
> sudo apt-get install linux-generic

Or "linux-image-generic" if you don't need/want the headers.