[Wolves] unbuntu latest source code

Ade adrian.bradshaw at gmail.com
Thu Nov 4 08:30:33 GMT 2004


Following on from a question I raised last night - "how do you get the
current source code/headers"

It must be someting that Im doing wrong, as Im new to Debian but here
is what I mean -

# uname -r
2.6.8.1-3-386

# apt-get install kernel-source
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package kernel-source is a virtual package provided by:
  kernel-source-2.6.7 2.6.7-3ubuntu2
  kernel-source-2.6.6 2.6.6-2
  kernel-source-2.6.5 2.6.5-4
  kernel-source-2.4.26 2.4.26-6
  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


 # apt-get install kernel-headers
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package kernel-headers is a virtual package provided by:
  kernel-headers-2.6.7-1-k7-smp 2.6.7-1ubuntu2
  kernel-headers-2.6.7-1-k7 2.6.7-1ubuntu2
  kernel-headers-2.6.7-1-686-smp 2.6.7-1ubuntu2
  kernel-headers-2.6.7-1-686 2.6.7-1ubuntu2
  kernel-headers-2.6.7-1-386 2.6.7-1ubuntu2
  kernel-headers-2.6.7-1 2.6.7-1ubuntu2
  kernel-headers-2.4.26-speakup 2.4.26-1
  kernel-headers-2.4.26-1-k7-smp 2.4.26-6
  kernel-headers-2.4.26-1-k7 2.4.26-6
  kernel-headers-2.4.26-1-k6 2.4.26-6
  kernel-headers-2.4.26-1-686-smp 2.4.26-6
  kernel-headers-2.4.26-1-686 2.4.26-6
  kernel-headers-2.4.26-1-586tsc 2.4.26-6
  kernel-headers-2.4.26-1-386 2.4.26-6
  kernel-headers-2.4.26-1 2.4.26-6
You should explicitly select one to install.
E: Package kernel-headers has no installation candidate


Im probably being really thick here, anyone care to enlighten me :-)

Cheers, Ade

Nice to see a couple of new faces last night by the way



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