RE: where do I find the kernel headers? *solved*
Seneca wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 04:28:17PM -0600, Michael Kahle wrote:
>> I hope this isn't a silly question.
>
>Most of the time, the only silly question is the one left unasked
>(trite, I know).
>
>> >From the Debian FAQ (http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-kernel.en.html):
>> //snip
>> The kernel headers distributed with the kernel source are located in
>> /usr/include/linux/include/.
>> //snip
>
>Read /usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.18/README.headers.gz
>
>> I used dselect to install the kernel-source-2.4.18 package and a ls of
the
>> /usr/include/linux/include/ shows:
>> bash: cd: /usr/include/linux/include/: No such file or directory
>
>Try that after installing libc6-dev.
>
>> I did find a file under /usr/scr/ called kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2
>>
>> Is this what the kernel-source package installs?
>
>The kernel-source packages deposit a tarball of the kernel source in
>/usr/src.
>
>seneca@dodecagon:~$ dpkg -L kernel-source-2.4.19
>/.
>/usr
>/usr/src
>/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19.tar.bz2
>/usr/share
>/usr/share/doc
>/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19
>/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/copyright
>/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/changelog.gz
>/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/README.grub.gz
>/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/debian.README.gz
>/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/README.tecra.gz
>/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/README.headers.gz
>/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/README.gz
>/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/README.modules.gz
>/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/Flavours.gz
>/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/sample.module.rules.gz
>/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/Rationale.gz
>/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/sample.module.control.gz
>/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/Buildinfo
>/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/README.Debian.gz
>
>--
>Seneca
>seneca-cunningham@rogers.com
Thanks,
All I ended up needing was the kernel-headers package. That did the trick.
Thanks again to all.
Michael
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