On Thursday 14 May 2015 23:11:08 Dan Youngquist wrote:
> On 05/14/2015 02:56 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > I have several installed at the same time (both Wheezy and Jessie and
> > everything I have used before) and can choose in GRUB.  (I only don't
> > have more because I don't want more than four or five.)  I can certainly
> > choose an older version at boot time.
>
> Strange... Whenever I've tried to install any other version, it wants to
> uninstall everything else.  I just tried to install the 3.16 amd64 from
> backports, and Synaptic wants to uninstall everything 3.2.0 -- 486, amd64,
> metapackage, everything.  One more thing to figure out when I get home, I
> suppose.

Perhaps try another package manager.  Perhaps it's a Synaptic quirk.  I use 
aptitude and have never had any problem installing extra kernels.  I have to 
uninstall some periodically because they pile up with upgrades!

You talk of Synaptic trying to uninstall multiple kernels, so multiple kernels 
must be there in the first place, so you must have managed to install them.

As you see, I have both 3.2, and 3.16 from backports.  Here is my list again 
on this box:

lisi@Tux-II:~$ dpkg --list | grep linux-image
ii  linux-image-3.16-0.bpo.2-amd64            3.16.3-2~bpo70+1                   
amd64        Linux 3.16 for 64-bit PCs
ii  linux-image-3.16-0.bpo.3-amd64            3.16.5-1~bpo70+1                   
amd64        Linux 3.16 for 64-bit PCs
ii  linux-image-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64          3.16.7-ckt9-3~deb8u1~bpo70+1       
amd64        Linux 3.16 for 64-bit PCs
ii  linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64                 3.2.68-1+deb7u1                    
amd64        Linux 3.2 for 64-bit PCs
ii  linux-image-amd64                         3.16+63~bpo70+1                    
amd64        Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package)
lisi@Tux-II:~$

Lisi