Need help installing on Debian 3.1r1 PPC
Deron Kazmaier
deron at grasshopperllc.com
Mon Jan 30 13:32:05 MST 2006
Hi!
I'm trying to install MOL on Debian PPC 3.1r1. Of course, sounded so simple
with packages already created for this installation (or so I thought). I've
documented my process below, and I hope someone can guide me in the correct
direction.
"apt-get install mod-modules-2.6.8-powerpc" returns:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mol-modules-2.6.8-powerpc: Depends: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc (=
2.6.8-12) but 2.6.8-12sarge1 is to be installed
Of course, uname -r returns 2.6.8-powerpc
And, just to see what apt-get things, "apt-get install
kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc" returns kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc is already
the newest version.
No big deal, I'll just compile from the sources...
download, decompress, cd to the mol directory. "make" returns:
--- Error: Unconfigured kernel source!
--- (missing file: /usr/src/kernel-build-2.6.8-powerpc/include/linux/config.h)
So, I try and install a number of packages for the kernel. Maybe I missed
something. They are:
kernel-build-2.6.8-powerpc
kernel-headers
kernel-headers-2.6
kernel-headers-2.6.8
kernel-kbuild-2.6-3
kernel-package
linux-kernel-headers
But then no /usr/src/linux softlink. So (and this may be very wrong) I
linked that to /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8. Other directories created
when installing the above packages include:
kernel-build-2.6.8-powerpc
kernel-headers-2.6.8
kernel-kbuild-2.6-3
Maybe I need the full kernel sources?
Make in /usr/src/modules/mol now says:
make -C src/kmod
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/mol/src/kmod'
+ Entering Linux
/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8/scripts/gcc-version.sh:
/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8/scripts/gcc-version.sh: No such file or directory
make[4]: scripts/Makefile.build: No such file or directory
make[4]: *** No rule to make target `scripts/Makefile.build'. Stop.
make[3]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/mol/src/kmod/Linux/../build] Error 2
nm: '../build/mol.ko': No such file
nm: '../build/mol.ko': No such file
checker.pl failed
rm: cannot remove `../build/mol.ko': No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [all-local] Error 1
make[1]: *** [sub-Linux-all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/mol/src/kmod'
make: [src/kmod] Error 2 (ignored)
make -C src/netdriver
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/mol/src/netdriver'
/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8/scripts/gcc-version.sh:
/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8/scripts/gcc-version.sh: No such file or directory
make[3]: scripts/Makefile.build: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `scripts/Makefile.build'. Stop.
make[2]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/mol/src/netdriver/build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/mol/src/netdriver'
Obviously I need to set something else up, but this is all new to me. Any
advice is much appreciated.
Deron Kazmaier
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