Hello, i'm atempting to upgrade my kernel. I found this guide,
http://admin-board.com/mediawiki/ind.../Debian_kernel

I have atempted to follow it, however, in the part,
It fails to get the packages. I use aptitude but tried apt-get when aptitude failed and neither work. I made it simpler, and just tried
These are the resuls
"root@thinkpadx220:~# aptitude install kernel-package
No candidate version found for kernel-package
No candidate version found for kernel-package
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 44 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used."

Here is my sources.lst
sorry about the sources being cut off, i just copied and pasted from nano.

Hi,

I had a similar problem some time ago on a new installation. It seemed that just pointing to ftp.debian.org didn't work as expected. Putting in a country code like this: ftp.es.debian.org (for Spain) did the trick. Change in your sources.list, run
Kind regards,

Eric

Hi Erictra, i tried what you said, living in Australia i changed the mirrors to:
ftp.au.debian.org/debian/
and then did aptitude update, then aptitude upgrade, nothing was done though. then i tried aptitude install kernel-package, and i still get the same message as before.

Knightron

pls post your sources.lst or look at
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...e-list-330913/

my debian.lst is

deb http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/debian sid main contrib non-free

but I use a third party kernel which is

liquorix.lst

deb http://liquorix.net/debian/ sid main

and as you can tell I am on sid but I use a very smart script called smxi which does my kernel and updates for me.
Its not automatic but bloody better than any apt tool.

.......from the site

smxi is an interactive script designed to help people maintain their systems. It supports Debian (Stable, Testing, and Sid) and true Debian based distros (such as, but not limited to, AntiX, Aptosid, Epidemic, Linux Mint Debian [LMDE], Mepis). It does not support Ubuntu based distros because there are too many differences between Debian and Ubuntu.

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Knightron

pls post your sources.lst or look at
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...e-list-330913/

my debian.lst is

deb http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/debian sid main contrib non-free

but I use a third party kernel which is

liquorix.lst

deb http://liquorix.net/debian/ sid main

and as you can tell I am on sid but I use a very smart script called smxi which does my kernel and updates for me.
Its not automatic but bloody better than any apt tool.

.......from the site

smxi is an interactive script designed to help people maintain their systems. It supports Debian (Stable, Testing, and Sid) and true Debian based distros (such as, but not limited to, AntiX, Aptosid, Epidemic, Linux Mint Debian [LMDE], Mepis). It does not support Ubuntu based distros because there are too many differences between Debian and Ubuntu.

grrr I am double posting.

anyhow pls show the contents of your sources.list....it looks wrong

my contents are just one line above ok

if its not too rude what is ISP as they may mirror debian for you?

Hello, my isp is Telstra Bigpond, i use mobile broadband, and my sources.list is in my first post. Since taking Erics advice, i have changed, http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ to http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/.
p.s.
why didn't you just edit your first post instead of posting three times?

You don't even have the main repository there... just security and squeeze-updates - which is why nothing is installable.

A simple command like cat will show your sources.list, there is no need to copy and paste from a program like nano...

Copy and paste output from that here and use code tags [code][/code].

Debian mirror sites: http://www.debian.org/mirror/list

Howto for understanding, editing and maintaining sources.list: http://www.debianuserforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=388

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I could not edit because the LQ site was giving me some grief.

2) keep your sources.list simple please but feel free to ignore me

---------- Post added 04-09-11 at 18:27 ----------

I could not edit because the LQ site was giving me some grief.

2) keep your sources.list simple please but feel free to ignore me

EricTRA gave you the missing line above, so i assumed the problem was solved. Is it?
If not do what BricTRA or Caravel said, add the missing line, apt-get update and you are ready to go.
Deleting all the CD-lines, which are commented, won't hurt.

Once you can install again:
apt-get install pastebinit
pastebinit /etc/apt/sources.list
and you get the address where to find it. Post the link and you are done.

Thanks guys. I did what Caravel said, and it fixed ther issue. I'm new to Debian so i'm still learning a few things. Good links too Caravel, tought me a bit more. and also took your advice aus9, and cleaned it up a little too.
As for the cd sources, i'm going to leaves them there in case i decide to use them in the future.

Hi,

Glad you've found the solution. Have fun with Linux.

Kind regards,

Eric