I encountered this issue on a minimal install (the virtual flavor) of Karmic amd64 on ESXi4. "m-a build open-vm" creates a deb that (incorrectly) depends on linux-modules-2.6.31-14-server and linux-image-2.6.31-14-server.
I used "dpkg -i --force-depends" to ignore the dependencies and install the package.
I encountered this issue on a minimal install (the virtual flavor) of Karmic amd64 on ESXi4. "m-a build open-vm" creates a deb that (incorrectly) depends on linux-modules- 2.6.31- 14-server and linux-image- 2.6.31- 14-server.
I used "dpkg -i --force-depends" to ignore the dependencies and install the package.