Re: where do I find the kernel headers?

[Seneca <seneca-cunningham@rogers.com>]

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

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Seneca
seneca-cunningham@rogers.com