Trouble getting module-assistantForum: Apt-get Topic: Trouble getting module-assistant started by: shanet Posted by shanet on April 30 2006,14:19
Hello,I'm trying to install module-assistant as it is a prerequisite for installing the drivers for a PCI Wireless card I have in this system (RaLink RT2500). The guide to installing the card in Debian (http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php?title=Debian_rt2500_Howto&printable=yes) says you use module-assistant... So I try to apt-get module-assistant but it tells me Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Package module-assistant 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 Oh yeah, and my /etc/apt/sources.list reads thus #deb < http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ > testing main sid #deb < http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ > oldstable main non-free contrib sid #deb < http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ > testing/non-US main contrib non-free sid #deb-src < http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ > testing/non-US main contrib non-free sid #deb < http://www.modularity.org/knoppix > ./ Do I need more sources? What ones should I use? Additionally, (possibly unrelated) I tried to install module-assistant from a debian package but it tells me that it depends on perl, and that perl is not installed, however... perl -v gives me This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi Copyright 1987-2002, Larry Wall Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit. Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'. If you have access to the Internet, point your browser at < http://www.perl.com/, > the Perl Home Page. *** So CLEARLY perl exists... but anyway, I sudo apt-get install perl (just for the craic) and it tells me the same stuff that it said about having no installation candidate that it said about module-assistant. Would anyone be able to shed some light on this? I normally trust apt-get to make things super-easy for me, but now I'm confused... Posted by kerry on April 30 2006,19:46
You need to turn them on first by uncommenting(#) them then do apt-get update.Example: #deb < http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ > testing main sid to deb < http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ > testing main sid |