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extlinux-update: command not found, since Ubuntu Vivid

Asked by Tong Sun on 2015-05-01

Having installed extlinux, I still don't have the /boot/extlinux/linux.cfg file, so I tried to run extlinux-update to generate one. However, I got:

extlinux-update: command not found

Also, http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=contents&keywords=extlinux-update&mode=exactfilename&suite=vivid&arch=any says,

You have searched for files named extlinux-update in suite vivid, all sections, and all architectures.
Sorry, your search gave no results

So how can I use extlinux? Thanks

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Solved by:: Tong Sun

Solved:: 2017-05-23

Last query:: 2017-05-23

Last reply:: 2017-05-23

Link existing bug

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said on 2015-05-01:

By reverting back to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=trusty&arch=any&mode=exactfilename&searchon=contents&keywords=extlinux-update

or reverting to Ubuntu 14.10:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=utopic&arch=any&mode=exactfilename&searchon=contents&keywords=extlinux-update

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Tong Sun (suntong001) said on 2015-05-01:

So, by reverting back, do you think Ubuntu Vivid is broken?

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said on 2015-05-01:

No, it just means that the /usr/sbin/extlinux-update file does not exist yet in any Ubuntu package for vivid.

So you either wait for the package to get released for vivid (maybe never...) or you downgrade....

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Tong Sun (suntong001) said on 2015-05-01:

Is it your personal view/believe or it represent that of ubuntu? How confident are you that you are giving the correct answer?

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said on 2015-05-01:

That's the wrong question to ask. The right question is "How reliable is the information stored in http://packages.ubuntu.com/ ?"

I am just stating the facts as given on that website.

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Tong Sun (suntong001) said on 2015-05-01:

Mark, I've used launchpad long enough to know that if a question is "answered", then there will be little chance for it to get a second opinion.

I'm not questioning you, I'm just trying my best to find reasons to maintain my question to be "not-answered", to fight for the chances for it being answered. Hope you understand.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said on 2015-05-01:

If you look at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/syslinux and click on the triangles besides vivid and utopic, you might see that the binary package syslinux-stuff is available only in utopic, but not in vivid (also syslinux-dev is missing).

Background seems to be https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=757063

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Christopher Patrick (cpatrick08) said on 2017-05-20:

since vivid is EOL this should be sloved

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Tong Sun (suntong001) said on 2017-05-22:

That's a strange way to solve a problem. Note the problem is regarding Ubuntu syslinux, but not Vivid specific -- it started from version Vivid and is not solved even until zesty:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=zesty&arch=any&mode=exactfilename&searchon=contents&keywords=extlinux-update