Kernel update fails

[MDDeff]

Hey,

Trying to update my kernel as described here

BackTrack 4 Pre Final Kernel Update

and on the 3rd and 4th step, i get the following messages/errors:

#apt-get install -d linux-image
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information.. Done
linux-image is already the newest version
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded
#

i didnt figure this was of any consequence until I ran the next command

#dpkg -i -–force all linux-image-2.6.30.5_2.6.30.5-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.30.5_2.6.30.5-10.00.Custom_i386.deb (--install):
     cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encourntered while processing:
     linux-image-2.6.30.5_2.6.30.5-10.00.Custom_i386.deb

Any thoughts on the matter?

Thanks,

[hhmatt]

You are probably skipping this command:

cd /var/cache/apt/archives/

[MDDeff]

Actually I figured out what it was, actually it was a combination of things:

1) the command dpkg... says -i -force where instead it should be --force

2) the apt-get install linux-image says i had the most up to date kernel (as hosted on the backtrack repositories), which is true, with the exception of the development repositories, after taking a tip from this thread

http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...-4-kernel.html

I uncommitted the development repositories, which allowed me to update the kernel, which allowed me to upgrade the kernel.

unfortunately upgrading the kernel didn't solve the original problem i was trying to... (get my ar8132 nic and ar2427 wifi nic to work, but oh well, I've got another post going for that :-P)