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Avi Wadhwa · 12-30-2017, 08:05 AM

Hello all! I just saw this awesome place, as just a few days ago I got my refurbished Kindle 3 (Keyboard) 3G (B006). I jailbroke it, installed KUAL, Launchpad, many kindlets, SSH, a Terminal app (MyTs) , and now was trying to get programs to run through the terminal, but none did! So I found a Debian image (a very popular one from the forums) which worked fine, it was Debian Wheezy. But many programs (mps-youtube, also known as mpsyt, namely) were only available for Jessie + above. so I changed the sources lists in /etc/apt/sources something using nano, but now if I tried installing anything (namely Python related, like the aforementioned mps-youtube) it would give an error, dpkg would crash, yay. The error was something like Glibc requires a higher kernel than 2.6.26 or something.

Now, I don't wanna brick this kindle, so I didn't progress any further. Instead I deleted the image (debian ext3 one) and downloaded it again and retried and again and again, but somehow, even though I always tried different methods, I would reach the point upto without updating the kernel, I could not use basic software.

So is there any way to update this kindle kernel anywhere near "decent" like kernel 3.x or 4.x? or even run those software without the kernel update, or straight without chrooting to Debian? Thanks!

12-30-2017, 08:05 AM	#1
Avi Wadhwa Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2017 Device: Energy Pro HD	Debian chroot won't upgrade without Kernel Upgrade Hello all! I just saw this awesome place, as just a few days ago I got my refurbished Kindle 3 (Keyboard) 3G (B006). I jailbroke it, installed KUAL, Launchpad, many kindlets, SSH, a Terminal app (MyTs) , and now was trying to get programs to run through the terminal, but none did! So I found a Debian image (a very popular one from the forums) which worked fine, it was Debian Wheezy. But many programs (mps-youtube, also known as mpsyt, namely) were only available for Jessie + above. so I changed the sources lists in /etc/apt/sources something using nano, but now if I tried installing anything (namely Python related, like the aforementioned mps-youtube) it would give an error, dpkg would crash, yay. The error was something like Glibc requires a higher kernel than 2.6.26 or something. Now, I don't wanna brick this kindle, so I didn't progress any further. Instead I deleted the image (debian ext3 one) and downloaded it again and retried and again and again, but somehow, even though I always tried different methods, I would reach the point upto without updating the kernel, I could not use basic software. So is there any way to update this kindle kernel anywhere near "decent" like kernel 3.x or 4.x? or even run those software without the kernel update, or straight without chrooting to Debian? Thanks!