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Re: Open Source ???



On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Raphael Bustin wrote:

> Now I'm confused.  Well, OK, I was born that way.
> 
> New Debian installation.  Need to compile some
> source code, build an object.  Have makefile
> and a .C file, provided by NIC card vendor.
> 
> Run make.  Make complains that "modversions.h" is
> not found.  It seems to be a deeply nested
> dependency.
> 
> I'm guessing that this file lives in one of the
> "kernel-headers" .deb files.
> 
> But hey, what's this ---
> 
> At debian.org, there is no .deb for the i386
> build for kernel-headers-2.2.18pre21.  Oddly enough,
> there is such a file for sparc.
> 
> Nor is there such a .deb file on my debian
> distribution CD.  So which .deb file do I need
> to get this steenking header file?
> 
> Is there some clue in the naming of this
> distro ("2.2.18pre21") that would lead me to
> the answer?
> 
> Clearly I haven't learned to think in Linux
> terms yet...
> 
Hello,

	You guessed correctly!  You should upgrade to
kernel-image-2.2.19 and get kernel-headers-2.2.19.  2.2.18pre21 is
phased out.

Simon



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