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Re: nvidia - what is preferred installation route



On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 04:37:02PM +0100, michael wrote:
> I have having a few problems here. I've
>         $ uname -a
>         Linux ratty 2.4.27-1-686-smp #1 SMP Wed Dec 1 19:50:17 JST 2004
>         i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> but when I try and use module-assistant it complains about headers and
> whatever I try doesn't help:
>         
>         $ sudo m-a -i prepare
>          apt-get -y install kernel-headers-2.4.27-1-686-smp
>         
>         Reading Package Lists... Done
>         Building Dependency Tree... Done
>         E: Couldn't find package kernel-headers-2.4.27-1-686-smp
>         
>         Done!
> 
> So tried downloading 2.4.27-2-686-smp headers as per
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/01/msg00398.html
> but then get
> 
>         $ sudo m-a -i -l  2.4.27-2-686-smp prepare
>         Kernel headers available
>         in /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.27-2-686-smp
>         Creating symlink...
>         
>         Done!
>         $ sudo m-a a-i -i -t -l  2.4.27-2-686-smp -f nvidia-kernel
>         Reading Package Lists... Done
>         Building Dependency Tree... 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.
>         
>         .
>         Updated infos about 1 packages
>         
> 
> Any ideas???
> 
> Thanks, Michael

It seems like you're missing something in your /etc/apt/sources.list
file.  Do you have any entries in there?

- Ryan

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