Re: Installing wacom-kernel-source on Etch: /var/lib/dpkg/info/wacom-kernel-source.postinst: line 49: [: too many arguments

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer@icfo.es>]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 19:21:29 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 23:16 +0100, Emmanuele Massimi wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/wacom-kernel-source.postinst has a couple of mistakes
> relating to recent kernels.
> 
> line 48 needs to look like this:
> 
> kvers="`head -n 1 $ksrc/include/linux/utsrelease.h | cut -c 22- | rev | cut -c 2- | rev`"
> 
> But the build still fails for anything after 2.6.16... since that is the
> last update for the wacom-kernel-source and 2.6.18 (or 20 for me)
> doesn't exist.
> 
> Plus, AFAICS, it isn't needed anymore.
> 
> modprobe tells me:
> 
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-k7/kernel/drivers/usb/input/wacom.ko
> 
> Also found in for me in:
> /lib/modules/2.6.20-1-k7/kernel/drivers/usb/input/wacom.ko
> 
> So, this here results in, what are you trying to do? The following
> commands, as needed should help you out.
> 
> "sudo /sbin/modprobe wacom" or "modprobe wacom" should do the trick for
> you.
> 
> Sorry Florian, I believe you went off on a wild goose chase with
> Emmanuele, without even knowing it.

Are you sure that the wacom-kernel-source package is completely
obsolete? The package description of xserver-xorg-input-wacom sounds
like wacom-kernel-sources is still needed for some models.

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