From: Rogerio Luz Coelho on
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From: Rogerio Luz Coelho <rogluz.news(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2010/3/19
Subject: Re: Kernel headers for 2.6.32-trunk-686?
To: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson(a)cox.net>


Easy work around way:

# aptitude install module-assistant

# m-a update

# m-a prepare

;)

Rogerio

2010/3/19 Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson(a)cox.net>

On 2010-03-19 16:46, Jen wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> My name is Jen, and I'm new to the list. I've been playing with Linux on
>> and off for about a year, but have only recently found a distro that meets
>> my accessibility needs (Debian unstable). It's also a great learning tool :P
>> I need to build some packages from source, and I need kernel headers to
>> do it. I can't find the headers I need, when I try to install them in the
>> conventional way I get the error 'package not found'.
>> An 'apt-cache search' finds nothing. Can someone please tell me where to
>> get the kernel headers for 2.6.32-trunk-686, and how I install them?
>>
>
> Where does 2.6.32-trunk-686 come from? Definitely not Unstable!
>
> $ apt-cache search 2.6.32-trunk-686
> $
>
> You might want to install linux-image-2.6.32-4-686 (or the -bigmem variant
> dependent on your RAM size).
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>>
>
> apt-cache search kernel headers | grep headers | grep 32
>
> So, I'd install linux-image-2.6.32-4-686{-bigmem} and
> linux-headers-2.6.32-4-686{-bigmem}.
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