Debian 3.1r1: Debblue. How do I install?

sparka · 01-24-2006, 07:30 PM

Hi, i'm running Debian 3.1 sarge and I want to install Debblue onto my system.
I have a 2.6.8 kernel
The FAQ on their site is not good at all. I was wondering if anyone could help.

Thanks!!

saman007uk · 01-25-2006, 08:40 AM

May you could start by saying what Debblue is or post a link to it?!

cuiq · 01-25-2006, 08:45 AM

Here's your link.

http://debblue.debian.net/

saman007uk · 01-25-2006, 10:48 AM

What part of teh FAQ do you have a problem with? It seems pretty verbose to me.

sparka · 01-25-2006, 03:41 PM

Well, to start off:
Running "apt-get install bootsplash"
Results in this:

Code:

localhost:/home/localhost# apt-get install bootsplash
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://www.bootsplash.de unstable/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/www.bootsplash.de_files_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Couldn't find package bootsplash

even though my /etc/apt/sources.list has the line:
deb http://www.bootsplash.de/files/debian/ unstable main

What is going on?
BTW: I DO have a working internet connection
Yes, I did run "apt-get update", but I get a "404 error: not found" as well.

Thanks!!!

saman007uk · 01-25-2006, 05:16 PM

It should be:

Code:

deb http://www.bootsplash.de/ unstable main

You have to remove "files/debian/".

sparka · 01-25-2006, 06:09 PM

All right, thanks for the tip!!
So now, I can successfully install bootsplash but now i'm having trouble installing my kernel-source-2.6.8.
Here's the error:

Code:

localhost:/home/localhost# apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.8 kernel-patch-bootsplash
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
kernel-patch-bootsplash is already the newest version.
Suggested packages:
  libncurses-dev libqt3-mt-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  kernel-source-2.6.8
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/34.9MB of archives.
After unpacking 35.1MB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 104671 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kernel-source-2.6.8 (from .../kernel-source-2.6.8_2.6.8-16sarge1_all.d eb) ...
dpkg-deb (subprocess): error in buffer_read(stream): failed to write to pipe in copy: Input/output error
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste returned error exit status 2
dpkg: error processing /cdrom//pool/main/k/kernel-source-2.6.8/kernel-source-2.6.8_2.6.8-16sarge1_all.deb (--unpack):
 short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2')
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /cdrom//pool/main/k/kernel-source-2.6.8/kernel-source-2.6.8_2.6.8-16sarge1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Anyone know the problem?
Also, can't I just download my kernel sources as well?

Thanks!!!

saman007uk · 01-26-2006, 05:46 AM

Quote:

dpkg-deb (subprocess): error in buffer_read(stream): failed to write to pipe in copy: Input/output error

I think your CD/DVD is corrupt. You might want to download the packages from the official Debian repositories.

Even if you did manage to install the kernel-source, I think you will find that there is no kernel patch for the 2.6.8 kernel (at least thats what I found). You will need to use/compile a more up2date kernel, such as 2.6.15.

If you don't know how to compile/patch the kernel, I can send you a DEB package for the 2.6.15 kernel (with bootsplash already enabled).

sparka · 01-26-2006, 05:16 PM

Yea, I just found that out. I get the error "No patch found for kernel 2.6.8" or something along those lines.

Quote:

If you don't know how to compile/patch the kernel, I can send you a DEB package for the 2.6.15 kernel (with bootsplash already enabled).

Really? That would be great!!! I would greatly appreciate your help if you could!!

Thanks!!

EDIT: email is: skywalker228@hotmail.com if you need it

saman007uk · 01-27-2006, 05:59 AM

Ok. Here's how to do it (you need to be root):

Code:

wget http://meninpc.co.uk/kernel-headers-2.6.15-bootsplash_10.00.Custom_i386.deb
wget http://meninpc.co.uk/kernel-image-2.6.15-bootsplash_10.00.Custom_i386.deb
dpkg -i kernel-headers-2.6.15-bootsplash_10.00.Custom_i386.deb
dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.15-bootsplash_10.00.Custom_i386.deb

You can then install the bootsplash as explained in the DebBlue site. As always, check files for viruses before installing them, and the usual disclaimer "not fit for any guranteed purpose ... " applies.

The kernel will only work with i386 CPUs.