[Prism54-users] Debian install!

[James Hosken]

Quoting Tim Dijkstra <newsuser@famdijkstra.org>:

> On Thu,  4 Dec 2003 21:20:03 +0000
> James Hosken <james@jamesho.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I've never done any thing with the kernel before, it's scary.
> > I don't mind how I do it, but it would be cool it I can make it so
> > that I can keep upgrading when new stuff comes out.
> > 
> > 
> > dpkg -L hotplug | grep firmware
> > returns
> > /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent
> > so I guess that's OK.
> > 
> > When Iapt-get install libncurses-dev I get this
> > 
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > Package libncurses-dev is a virtual package provided by:
> >   libncurses5	5.3.20030719-4
> > You should explicitly select one to install.
> > E: Package libncurses-dev has no installation candidate
> > 
> > What that mean?
> 
> Precisely what it says, choose one. 
> If multiple package provide the same functionality, there's usually
> a
> virtual package. If a package needs the functionality it can just
> depend
> on the virtual package, users can than choose to install one of the
> packages that provide it. In this case there's not much choice, so
> you can apt-get libncurses5.

OK, that's simple. I should have worked that one out myself. Sorry.

  
> > Where is the best place to get the kernel-source from?
> 
> The newest are always at www.kernel.org. But I think usually you can
> also 'apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.X', they're probably already
> patched to fit nicely in debian.

That's cool, but where does the source get put?

 
> He gave only the debian specific stuff, you still need to apply the
> patch to the kenel source (before you do make-kpkg), copy the
> firmware to the right place, etc (as you can read in the README.)

Ok, so I need to apt-get the kernel-source, but how do I patch it?
Have already sorted the firmware. That was nice and easy. :-)

Thanks
James