Madwifi no install candidate

Origami_f3tus · 02-04-2008, 04:43 AM

when i use apt-get install madwifi-source
it says:
Package madwifi-source is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package madwifi-source has no installation candidate

i have edited /etc/apt/sources.list to get from the non-free and thats the only thing i know of to do any help would be appreciated

farslayer · 02-04-2008, 10:42 AM

did you remember to update apt after changing your sources list ?

if you want to use the module assistant to install madwifi the Debian way, heres a quick run through

aptitude update
aptitude keep-all
aptitude install build-essential module-assistant madwifi-tools
m-a update
m-a prepare
m-a a-i madwifi

http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/Debian

Origami_f3tus · 02-05-2008, 06:46 PM

well it went through until the
#m-a a-i madwifi

──────────┤ module-assistant, error message ├─────────────────┐
│ │
│ Installation of the madwifi-source source failed. ↑
│ ▮
│ Ignoring this package. Maybe you need to add something to ▒
│ sources.list, maybe the contrib and non-free archives.

this is the error that i get when I use that command.

farslayer · 02-05-2008, 09:33 PM

Quote:

Maybe you need to add something to sources.list, maybe the contrib and non-free archives

Madwifi should definitely be in non-free

Code:

debianetch:/etc# apt-cache policy madwifi-source
madwifi-source:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:0.9.2+r1842.20061207-2etch1
  Version table:
     1:0.9.2+r1842.20061207-2etch1 0
        500 http://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu etch/non-free Packages

Looks like you need to edit your /etc/apt/sources list.. just add non-free to ALL the lines in your sources.list Remember this is a source package so non-free must be on the deb-src lines

Code:

debianetch:/etc# cat /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/debian/ etch main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main

then update aptitude and try again

aptitude update
m-a a-i madwifi