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

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 06:25:01AM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> 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!
> 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
> 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# 

Well there was a problem with earlier versions of the nvidia package in
unstable/testing which was recently fixed in unstable.  The workaroudn
was:

cd /usr/src
ln -s nvidia-kernel.tar.gz nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz

Then run m-a again.

-- 
Len Sorensen