Scott Mohnkern wrote:
Got it, this is what I ended up with:
cpcug:/homec/mohnkern# apt-cache search kernel-source
kernel-source-2.4.10 - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.10
kernel-source-2.4.14 - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.14
freeswan - IPSEC utilities for FreeSWan
kernel-source-2.2.10 - Linux kernel source.
kernel-source-2.2.19 - Linux kernel source for version 2.2.19
kernel-source-2.2.20 - Linux kernel source for version 2.2.20
kernel-source-2.2.22 - Linux kernel source for version 2.2.22
kernel-source-2.4.16 - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.16
kernel-source-2.4.17 - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.17
kernel-source-2.4.17-hppa - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.17 on
HPPA
kernel-source-2.4.17-ia64 - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.17 on
IA-64
kernel-source-2.4.18 - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.18
kernel-source-2.4.18-hppa - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.18 on
HPPA
kernel-source-2.4.19 - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.19
Where do I go from here?
Scott
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:25:02 -0400, Alec Berryman <alec@thened.net>
wrote:
begin quotation of Scott Mohnkern on 2004-08-20 11:47:44 -0400:
hmmm. I've never tried "apt-get search" before....
Typo - `apt-cache search`. Sorry
You could have also done:
apt-get install kernel-source
Because you didn't enter a version of the kernel-source, it errors and
displays a list of available sources
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package kernel-source is a virtual package provided by:
kernel-source-2.6.8 2.6.8-2
kernel-source-2.6.7 2.6.7-4
kernel-source-2.6.6 2.6.6-2
kernel-source-2.4.27 2.4.27-3
kernel-source-2.4.26 2.4.26-5
kernel-source-2.4.25 2.4.25-3
kernel-source-2.4.24 2.4.24-3
kernel-source-2.2.25 2.2.25-3
You should explicitly select one to install.
E: Package kernel-source has no installation candidate
Now you can do, for example to install kernel-source-2.4.27:
apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.27
This will put the bzip2 file in /usr/src.
-mk