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




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> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:32:29 -0400
> To: mikef20000@hotmail.com
> CC: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: installing nvidia card in lenny apt source.list not quite right...
> From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
> 
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:27:25PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
>> I tried installing the graphics card.  Things went OK until I did the autoinstall step.  It complained that there was something wrong with the apt sources.list entries.  I think e.g. I am not picking up sid files etc.
>> 
>> 
>> debian:/etc/apt# more sources.list
>> #
>> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-1 20080407-11:52]/ lenny contrib main
>> 
>> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-5 20080407-11:52]/ lenny contrib main
>> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-4 20080407-11:52]/ lenny contrib main
>> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-3 20080407-11:52]/ lenny contrib main
>> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-2 20080407-11:52]/ lenny contrib main
>> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-1 20080407-11:52]/ lenny contrib main
>> 
>> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
>>  deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib
>> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
>>  deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib
> Why no non-free on those lines?  contrib without non-free never did seem
> to make much sense.
> 
>> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
>> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
>> deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
>> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
>> deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
>> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
>> debian:/etc/apt# 
>> 
>> I did apt-get update.
>> 
>> Comments appreciated.
> 
> What does 'apt-get update' say?
> 
> What is the exact error printed when you run the module-assistant
> command to compile the driver module?
> 
> -- 
> Len Sorensen

OK here's my output: 

debian:/etc/apt# uname -r
2.6.24-1-amd64
debian:/etc/apt# apt-get install module-assistant gcc nvidia-kernel-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
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.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  gcc-4.2 libc6-dev linux-libc-dev
Suggested packages:
  autoconf automake1.9 bison flex gcc-doc gcc-multilib libtool manpages-dev gcc-4.2-doc gcc-4.2-locales gcc-4.2-multilib libgcc1-dbg libgomp1-dbg libmudflap0-4.2-dbg
  libmudflap0-4.2-dev glibc-doc build-essential
Recommended packages:
  nvidia-kernel-source nvidia-kernel
The following NEW packages will be installed
  gcc gcc-4.2 libc6-dev linux-libc-dev module-assistant nvidia-kernel-common
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/3742kB of archives.
After this operation, 17.1MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Selecting previously deselected package gcc-4.2.
(Reading database ... 92011 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gcc-4.2 (from .../gcc-4.2_4.2.3-3_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package gcc.
Unpacking gcc (from .../gcc_4.2.2-2_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package linux-libc-dev.
Unpacking linux-libc-dev (from .../linux-libc-dev_2.6.24-5_amd64.deb) ...
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Unpacking libc6-dev (from .../libc6-dev_2.7-10_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package module-assistant.
Unpacking module-assistant (from .../module-assistant_0.10.11.0_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-kernel-common.
Unpacking nvidia-kernel-common (from .../nvidia-kernel-common_20051028+1-0.1_all.deb) ...
Setting up gcc-4.2 (4.2.3-3) ...
Setting up gcc (4:4.2.2-2) ...
Setting up linux-libc-dev (2.6.24-5) ...
Setting up libc6-dev (2.7-10) ...
Setting up module-assistant (0.10.11.0) ...
Setting up nvidia-kernel-common (20051028+1-0.1) ...

************************************************************************
*
* The update-modules command is deprecated and should not be used!
*
************************************************************************

update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/nvidia-kernel missing LSB style header
debian:/etc/apt# m-a update

Updated infos about 85 packages
debian:/etc/apt# m-a prepare
Getting source for kernel version: 2.6.24-1-amd64
apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.24-1-amd64 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
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.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  cpp-4.1 gcc-4.1 gcc-4.1-base libmudflap0 libmudflap0-dev linux-headers-2.6.24-1-common linux-kbuild-2.6.24
Suggested packages:
  gcc-4.1-locales gcc-4.1-doc gcc-4.1-multilib
The following NEW packages will be installed
  cpp-4.1 gcc-4.1 gcc-4.1-base libmudflap0 libmudflap0-dev linux-headers-2.6.24-1-amd64 linux-headers-2.6.24-1-common linux-kbuild-2.6.24
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 96.1kB/7471kB of archives.
After this operation, 40.7MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get: 1 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main libmudflap0 4.3.0-3 [96.1kB]
Fetched 96.1kB in 7s (12.7kB/s)                                                                                                                                       
Selecting previously deselected package gcc-4.1-base.
(Reading database ... 93223 files and directories currently installed.)
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Selecting previously deselected package linux-kbuild-2.6.24.
Unpacking linux-kbuild-2.6.24 (from .../linux-kbuild-2.6.24_2.6.24-1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package linux-headers-2.6.24-1-amd64.
Unpacking linux-headers-2.6.24-1-amd64 (from .../linux-headers-2.6.24-1-amd64_2.6.24-5_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up gcc-4.1-base (4.1.2-19) ...
Setting up cpp-4.1 (4.1.2-19) ...
Setting up gcc-4.1 (4.1.2-19) ...
Setting up libmudflap0 (4.3.0-3) ...
Setting up libmudflap0-dev (4.1.2-19) ...
Setting up linux-headers-2.6.24-1-common (2.6.24-5) ...
Setting up linux-kbuild-2.6.24 (2.6.24-1) ...
Setting up linux-headers-2.6.24-1-amd64 (2.6.24-5) ...
Creating symlink...
apt-get install build-essential 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
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.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  g++ g++-4.2 libstdc++6-4.2-dev
Suggested packages:
  g++-multilib g++-4.2-multilib gcc-4.2-doc libstdc++6-4.2-dbg libstdc++6-4.2-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed
  build-essential g++ g++-4.2 libstdc++6-4.2-dev
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/4282kB of archives.
After this operation, 16.3MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Selecting previously deselected package libstdc++6-4.2-dev.
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Unpacking build-essential (from .../build-essential_11.3_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up libstdc++6-4.2-dev (4.2.3-3) ...
Setting up g++-4.2 (4.2.3-3) ...
Setting up g++ (4:4.2.2-2) ...
Setting up build-essential (11.3) ...

Done!
debian:/etc/apt# 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
Creating symlink...
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:/etc/apt# pwd
/etc/apt
debian:/etc/apt# more sources.list
#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-1 20080407-11:52]/ lenny contrib main

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-5 20080407-11:52]/ lenny contrib main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-4 20080407-11:52]/ lenny contrib main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-3 20080407-11:52]/ lenny contrib main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-2 20080407-11:52]/ lenny contrib main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-1 20080407-11:52]/ lenny contrib main

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
 deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
 deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free


debian:/etc/apt# emacs sources.list
debian:/etc/apt# apt-get update
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-5 20080407-11:52] lenny Release.gpg
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-5 20080407-11:52] lenny/contrib Translation-en_GB
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-5 20080407-11:52] lenny/main Translation-en_GB
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Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-1 20080407-11:52] lenny/main Packages/DiffIndex
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Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Translation-en_GB
Ign http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Packages
Ign http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/contrib Packages
Get: 1 http://http.us.debian.org testing Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Translation-en_GB
Ign http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free Packages
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Ign http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free Sources
Ign http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/main Sources
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Translation-en_GB
Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release
Ign http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/contrib Sources
Ign http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/non-free Sources
Err http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Packages
  404 Not Found
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Err http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free Sources
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Err http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/main Sources
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Ign http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Translation-en_GB
Ign http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Translation-en_GB
Get: 2 http://http.us.debian.org unstable Release.gpg [189B]
Err http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/contrib Sources                 
  404 Not Found
Err http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/non-free Sources        
  404 Not Found
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex 
Get: 3 http://http.us.debian.org testing Release [74.4kB]
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Sources
Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Sources
Get: 4 http://http.us.debian.org unstable Release [86.4kB]
Get: 5 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages/DiffIndex [2038B]
Get: 6 http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Packages/DiffIndex [2023B]
Get: 7 http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Packages/DiffIndex [2023B]
Get: 8 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Sources/DiffIndex [2023B]
Get: 9 http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Sources/DiffIndex [2023B]
Get: 10 http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Sources/DiffIndex [2023B]
Get: 11 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Sources [1663kB]
Get: 12 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/contrib Sources [33.3kB]                                                                                                   
Get: 13 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/non-free Sources [38.6kB]                                                                                                  
Get: 14 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main 2008-04-21-2023.05.pdiff [3741B]                                                                                       
Get: 15 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main 2008-04-21-2023.05.pdiff [1262B]                                                                                       
Get: 16 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main 2008-04-21-2023.05.pdiff [3741B]                                                                                       
Get: 17 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main 2008-04-21-2023.05.pdiff [3741B]                                                                                       
Get: 18 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main 2008-04-21-2023.05.pdiff [1262B]                                                                                       
Get: 19 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main 2008-04-21-2023.05.pdiff [1262B]                                                                                       
Fetched 1914kB in 15s (122kB/s)                                                                                                                                       
W: Failed to fetch http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/testing/non-US/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz  404 Not Found

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W: Failed to fetch http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/testing/non-US/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages.gz  404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/testing/non-US/main/source/Sources.gz  404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/testing/non-US/contrib/source/Sources.gz  404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/testing/non-US/non-free/source/Sources.gz  404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/unstable/non-US/main/source/Sources.gz  404 Not Found

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W: Failed to fetch http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/unstable/non-US/non-free/source/Sources.gz  404 Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
debian:/etc/apt# 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:/etc/apt# more sources.list
#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-1 20080407-11:52]/ lenny contrib main

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-5 20080407-11:52]/ lenny contrib main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-4 20080407-11:52]/ lenny contrib main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-3 20080407-11:52]/ lenny contrib main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-2 20080407-11:52]/ lenny contrib main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-1 20080407-11:52]/ lenny contrib main

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
 deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
 deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
debian:/etc/apt# 
debian:/etc/apt
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I tried adding the unstable entries in the hope it might help a bit.

I can't cut and paste safely on this laptop.

It's more verbose than I would like.

Sorry about this.

Michael Fothergill

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