Re: Open Source ???
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Raphael Bustin wrote:
> At 11:54 PM 11/4/01 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>
> > > On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Raphael Bustin wrote:
> >
> > > > Nor is there such a .deb file on my debian distribution CD. So which
> > > > .deb file do I need to get this steenking header file?
> > > >
> > > > Is there some clue in the naming of this distro ("2.2.18pre21") that
> > > > would lead me to the answer?
> > > >
> > > > Clearly I haven't learned to think in Linux terms yet...
> > > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > You guessed correctly! You should upgrade to kernel-image-2.2.19 and
> > > get kernel-headers-2.2.19. 2.2.18pre21 is phased out.
>
>
> Whew. Hard to keep up. You know -- I didn't personally
> "select" 2.2.18pre21 -- it was on a CD that came with
> "Debian GNU/Linux Bible".
>
> Why would the author of this book choose to distribute
> a short-lived version of Debian?
>
> And, isn't it required that *all* the sources (including
> headers) be archived, for all releases? In effect, I'm
> being forced to upgrade a working installation for lack of
> source files. A wee bit annoying.
>
> This might all be a bit simpler if I had a working
> network connection (on the Debian box,) but you see...
> that's in fact what I'm struggling to achieve.
Ugh. 2.2.18pre21 was shipped with Debian for a _long_ time. I
don't know when the maintainer upped the package...
Try looking for kernel-source-2.2.18pre21 on your CD. It will
have the headers (and the not-headers *grin*) which you should be able
to use.
Simon
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