- >> >> debian:/home/mikef# m-a a-i -t nvidia-kernel >> .
kef# > > Well there was a problem with earlier versions of the nvidia package in > unstable/testing which was recently fixed in unstable. The workaroudn > was: > > cd /usr/src > ln -s nvidia-kernel.tar.gz nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz > > Then run m-a again. > > -- > Len Sorensen I tried this but it did not work. Here is my output: debian:/home/mikef# cd /usr/src debian:/usr/src# ls linux linux-kbuild-2.6.24 linux-headers-2.6.24-1-amd64 linux-OLDVERSION.1208822724 linux-headers-2.6.24-1-common debian:/usr/src# ls -la total 20 drwxrwsr-x 5 root src 4096 2008-04-22 01:05 . drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 2008-04-11 01:54 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src 37 2008-04-22 01:05 linux -> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-1-amd64 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-04-22 01:04 linux-headers-2.6.24-1-amd64 drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 2008-04-22 01:04 linux-headers-2.6.24-1-common drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2008-04-22 01:04 linux-kbuild-2.6.24 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src 28 2008-04-22 01:04 linux-OLDVERSION.1208822724 -> linux-headers-2.6.24-1-amd64 debian:/usr/src# ln -s nvidia-kernel.tar.gz nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz debian:/usr/src# m-a auto-install nvidia Updated infos about 1 packages Getting source for kernel version: 2.6.24-1-amd64 Kernel headers available in /lib/modules/2.6.24-1-amd64/build apt-get install build-essential Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done build-essential is already the newest version. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libxklavier11 libtotem-plparser7 refblas3 lapack3 libhsqldb-java-gcj libportaudio2 libsuitesparse libneon27-gnutls libg2c0 libsndfile1 gcc-3.4-base Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Done! download Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package nvidia-kernel-source is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package nvidia-kernel-source has no installation candidate Updated infos about 1 packages debian:/usr/src# m-a a-i -t nvidia-kernel . Updated infos about 1 packages Getting source for kernel version: 2.6.24-1-amd64 Kernel headers available in /lib/modules/2.6.24-1-amd64/build apt-get install build-essential Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done build-essential is already the newest version. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libxklavier11 libtotem-plparser7 refblas3 lapack3 libhsqldb-java-gcj libportaudio2 libsuitesparse libneon27-gnutls libg2c0 libsndfile1 gcc-3.4-base Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Done! download Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package nvidia-kernel-source is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package nvidia-kernel-source has no installation candidate Installation of the nvidia-kernel-source source failed. Ignoring this package. Maybe you need to add something to sources.list, maybe the contrib and non-free archives. Updating info about nvidia-kernel-source Updated infos about 1 packages debian:/usr/src# pwd /usr/src debian:/usr/src# ls linux linux-kbuild-2.6.24 linux-headers-2.6.24-1-amd64 linux-OLDVERSION.1208822724 linux-headers-2.6.24-1-common nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz debian:/usr/src# ls -l total 12 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src 37 2008-04-22 01:05 linux -> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-1-amd64 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-04-22 01:04 linux-headers-2.6.24-1-amd64 drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 2008-04-22 01:04 linux-headers-2.6.24-1-common drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2008-04-22 01:04 linux-kbuild-2.6.24 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src 28 2008-04-22 01:04 linux-OLDVERSION.1208822724 -> linux-headers-2.6.24-1-amd64 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src 20 2008-04-22 19:41 nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz -> nvidia-kernel.tar.gz debian:/usr/src# Should I not have more files than this in my source directory? Thanks, Mikef _________________________________________________________________ 100’s of prizes to be won at BigSnapSearch.com http://www.bigsnapsearch.com
