Re: What is the location of the directory of the directory of C headerfiles that match your running kernel ?
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:41:02 +0200
"debian" <debian2@searo.be> wrote:
>
>
> I am running ETCH.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mumia W..
> Sent: donderdag 19 oktober 2006 21:20
> To: Debian User List
> Subject: Re: What is the location of the directory of the directory
> of C headerfiles that match your running kernel ?
>
> On 10/19/2006 01:19 PM, 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.
> >
>
> You don't say what distribution you're using. I have Sarge and
> /usr/include/linux/ has a version.h.
>
>
> --
>
>
The correct answer in your case is
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-2-686/include
since that is the directory which matches your running kernel. Check
that the required file exists:
~$ dpkg -S /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-2-686/include/linux/version.h
linux-headers-2.6.17-2-686: /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-2-686/include/linux/version.h
By the way, you don't need all the other linux-headers-* packages,
unless you have the corresponding linux-images-* packages installed.
--
Liam
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