Re: Where has it gone?

[cbergmann@acm.org]

Starting with 2.6.12, packages are renamed as linux-source and linux-image!

Regards, Clemens


On Wednesday 01 February 2006 07:43, Brian R. Whitecotton wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am presently runing 2.6.11-9-amd64-k8.  I think my system is broken as
> it is having trouble with what it *thinks* is the correct kernel version
> -sources etc.
>
> I would like to be running the latest testing but when I attempt an
> apt-get install kernel-image I get the following:
>
> root@Goliath:~# apt-get install kernel-image
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Package kernel-image is a virtual package provided by:
>   kernel-image-2.6.11-9-amd64-k8 2.6.11-4
> You should explicitly select one to install.
> E: Package kernel-image has no installation candidate
>
> so I do....
>
> root@Goliath:~# apt-get install kernel-image <tab-completion>
> kernel-image                    kernel-image-2.6.8-10-amd64-k8
> kernel-image-2.2.25             kernel-image-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8
> kernel-image-2.4                kernel-image-2.6-amd64-k8
> kernel-image-2.6                kernel-image-netbootable
> kernel-image-2.6.11-9-amd64-k8
> root@Goliath:~# apt-get install kernel-image
>
> so I do...
>
> root@Goliath:~# apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.11-9-amd64-k8
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> kernel-image-2.6.11-9-amd64-k8 is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
> root@Goliath:~#
>
> so I use --reinstall....
>
> and I get
>
> root@Goliath:~# apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.11-9-amd64-k8 --reinstall
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reinstallation of kernel-image-2.6.11-9-amd64-k8 is not possible, it
> cannot be downloaded.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
> root@Goliath:~#
>
> So I think, humm there must be new images, sources, headers, etc BUT I
> cannot find them.
>
> Please advise!!!!!
>
> Thank You,
>
> Brian

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