RE: installing nvidia card in lenny apt source.list not quite right...

[Michael Fothergill <mikef20000@hotmail.com>]

>> 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
> 
> OK, what does 'apt-cache search nvidia-kernel' say on your system?
> 
> It might work with 'm-a a-i -t nvidia-kernel' rather than 'nvidia'.

Thanks a lot.  Here is output on your queries:

debian:/home/mikef# apt-cache search nvidia-kernel
nvidia-kernel-common - NVIDIA binary kernel module common files


debian:/home/mikef# 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!
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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:/home/mikef# 

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Suggestions welcome.

Michael Fothergill
  I
> think something was renamed a little while ago and perhaps module
> asistant in testing is a bit out of date on the current naming.
> 
>> Updated infos about 1 packages
>> debian:/etc/apt# pwd
>> /etc/apt
>> debian:/etc/apt# more sources.list
>> #

> 
> There is no such thing as non-us.debian.org anymore.  Delete those.

I will do this.
Thanks
> 
> -- 
> Len Sorensen

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