Re: What is the location of the directory of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel ?
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 20:19 +0200, debian wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i want to install vmware 5.5 workstation on my debian linux.
>
> This is my configuration:
> ca-phlinux:/# uname -a
> Linux ca-phlinux 2.6.17-2-686 #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 16:34:10 UTC 2006 i686
> GNU/Linux
> ca-phlinux:/#
>
> The installation now asks:
> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
> running
> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
>
> i installed header files and kernel source with apt-get.
> This is my /usr/src/ directory:
>
> ca-phlinux:/usr/src# ls -al
> total 39896
> drwxrwsr-x 18 root src 4096 2006-10-03 16:00 .
> drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 96 2006-10-02 13:44 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 16 2006-10-02 15:42 kernel-patches
> drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 2006-10-02 17:55 linux-2.6.18
> drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 2006-10-02 18:04 linux-headers-2.6.17-2
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2006-10-02 18:04
> linux-headers-2.6.17-2-486
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2006-10-02 18:04
> linux-headers-2.6.17-2-686
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2006-10-02 18:05
> linux-headers-2.6.17-2-686-bigmem
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2006-10-02 18:05
> linux-headers-2.6.17-2-k7
> drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 2006-10-02 18:05
> linux-headers-2.6.17-2-vserver
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2006-10-02 18:05
> linux-headers-2.6.17-2-vserver-686
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2006-10-02 18:05
> linux-headers-2.6.17-2-vserver-k7
> drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 2006-10-02 18:05
> linux-headers-2.6.17-2-xen
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2006-10-02 18:05
> linux-headers-2.6.17-2-xen-686
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2006-10-02 18:05
> linux-headers-2.6.17-2-xen-k7
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 16 2006-10-02 18:04 linux-kbuild-2.6.17
> drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 2006-10-02 16:12 linux-source-2.6.17
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40732624 2006-09-13 17:52
> linux-source-2.6.17.tar.bz2
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 80 2006-10-03 16:00 rpm
> ca-phlinux:/usr/src#
>
>
> so i added "/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-2/includeso i
> tried:/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-2/include" to complete
>
> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
> running
> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-2/includeso i
> tried:/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-2/include
>
> The path "/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-2/include" is a kernel header
> file
> directory, but it does not contain the file "linux/version.h" as
> expected. This
> can happen if the kernel has never been built, or if you have invoked
> the "make
> mrproper" command in your kernel directory. In any case, you may want
> to
> rebuild your kernel.
>
>
>
> i tried the same with:
>
>
>
> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
> running
> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-2-486/include
>
> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
> running
> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-2-686/include
>
> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
> running
> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.17/include
>
>
>
> ....because i don't know what the hell this is about.
>
> i installed Debian with network installation and it works fine.
> Never had to change something about the kernel.
> How can i make this work ?
>
> thnx.
> Phil.
>
>
Does /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-2-686/include/linux/version.h
contain the line #define UTS_RELEASE "2.6.17-2-686" ? I had the same
problem with 2.6.18 and had to add it.
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