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. rafe b.
