Can't reinstall kernel source

[David A. Bandel]

On 24 Apr 2003 15:05:33 -0600
"Scott S. Jones D.C." <drjones at vii.com> wrote:

> I had 'kernel-source-2.4.20' on my drive, but could not get it to
> respond without failed hunks when applying the mki-adapter.patch file
> to the kernel, before compiling. I subsequently deleted
> 'kernel-source-2.4.20' from my debian system, and now I get the
> following message when I try to retrieve the kernel-source again. 
> 
> 
> scott:/home/scott# apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.20
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Package kernel-source-2.4.20 has no available version, but exists in
> the database.
> This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency
> and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the
> contents of sources.list
> E: Package kernel-source-2.4.20 has no installation candidate

download the kernel-source-2.4.20_i386.deb (or whatever it's called)

dpkg -i --force-all kernel-source-2.4.20_i386.deb

That should do it.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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