Kernel Headers and sources version

larry price laprice at gmail.com
Fri Feb 4 17:42:28 UTC 2005


the kernel listed in uname -a does not match any of the available packages
for apt-get, what's the story and where do I get the relevant packages?

is there a line I need to add to my sources.list
I currently have have warty warty-security and warty-universe in there.

root at redwing:~ # uname -a
Linux redwing 2.6.8.1-3-386 #1 Thu Nov 18 11:47:33 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
root at redwing:~ # apt-get -s 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
root at redwing:~ # apt-get -s 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

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