Re: where and how to get the latest kernel ?

2004-03-31 Thread Jan Houstek 
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:

 Hi all, i just installed a woody on my sun Ultra 5 i'm looking for a way
 to make it a bit up to date, to get at least GTK 2 and run a recent gcc
 (3.3.x)

Not sure about the GTK, byt it will certainly be difficult to make gcc-3.3
work properly on Woody. Switch to testing/unstable if you need it.

 I try to find a way to get the latest available kernel, would you know?

Look for debian source packages for kernel-image-sparc-2.4 package. I
highly recommend this way instead of trying to build plain vanilla kernel
on sparc, there is a log of work done by debian developers.

-- Honza Houstek

where and how to get the latest kernel ?

2004-03-30 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina 

Hi all , i just installed a woody on my sun Ultra 5
i'm looking for a way to make it a bit up to date , to get at least GTK 
2 and run a recent gcc (3.3.x )

.
I try to find a way to get the latest available kernel , would you know ?
i would like to get the sources .
i would like to learn no compile + install it the debian way .
would you help me on that ?

for the moment if i try a apt-get dist-upgrade  it gives :
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libc6-dev-sparc64: Depends: libc6-sparc64 (= 2.2.5-11.5) but 
2.2.5-11.2 is installed

  libc6-sparc64: Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.5-11.2) but 2.2.5-11.5 is installed

and whatever the package i try to install it blocks here ... what to do ?

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Re: where and how to get the latest kernel ?

2004-03-30 Thread James McNeilll 

for the kernel source, kernel.org is your friend.

you can also download pre-compiled kernels with apt. I find that it is 
best to download a pre-compiled kernel first, as that will automagically 
install support packages etc. for the new kernel. for example, the 2.6 
kernel doesn't support the old old /dev structures, and simply 
downloading a kernel and compiling it will cause death and destruction.
Once you've apt-got everything, download the source and play round with 
that. Debian standard is to keep the kernel source in 
/usr/src/linux-2.6.22 or whatever. Then symlink /usr/src/linux to the 
one you want.


Try apt-get -f install, like it said to. That will try to correct the 
dependency issues automatically. if that doesn't work, perhaps try using 
some more forcefull options, or run install from within dselect.


you may need to manually update the libc6 stuff, there may be some 
circular dependencies with those libs.


HTH,
-James

Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:


Hi all , i just installed a woody on my sun Ultra 5
i'm looking for a way to make it a bit up to date , to get at least 
GTK 2 and run a recent gcc (3.3.x )

.
I try to find a way to get the latest available kernel , would you know ?
i would like to get the sources .
i would like to learn no compile + install it the debian way .
would you help me on that ?

for the moment if i try a apt-get dist-upgrade  it gives :
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libc6-dev-sparc64: Depends: libc6-sparc64 (= 2.2.5-11.5) but 
2.2.5-11.2 is installed
  libc6-sparc64: Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.5-11.2) but 2.2.5-11.5 is 
installed


and whatever the package i try to install it blocks here ... what to do ?




--
James McNeill
Medical Genome Centre
John Curtin School of Medical Research
Australian National University
http://jcsmr.anu.edu.au/group_pages/mgc/MedGenCen.html