Re: Virtualbox problem - Debian kernel header version?

[Russell Gadd <russ.mail.lists@googlemail.com>]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 05:44:44PM +0000, Russell Gadd wrote:
>   
> > I'm trying to install Virtualbox Guest addtions and at one point the
> > recommended install procedure says do
> > aptitude install build-essential kernel-header-`uname -r`
> >
> > The kernel-header bit comes out as kernel-header-2.6.18-6-686
> > Aptitude reports "could'nt find any package whose name or description
> > matched kernel-header-2.6.18-6-686"
> >
> > When I go into aptitude and search for kernel-header the package I find is
> > linux-kernel-headers  with a version number of 2.6.18-7 (which is installed)
> >
> > I find the 7 a bit confusing as the installed kernel is 2.6.18-6 which is
> > the one on the latest r3 release iso.
> >     
>
> I know naught of Virtualbox, but I think the package you probably want
> is 'linux-headers-2.6-686', the meta-package that depends on the latest
> kernel headers for 686 architecture, *or* you could install the latest
> directly with 'linux-headers-2.6.18-6-686'
>
> A
>   
As always, great help from you Andrew. I installed 
linux-headers-2.6.18-6-686 with aptitude and the installation worked. 
Maybe if I'd searched in aptitude for headers instead of kernel-headers 
I would have found it before. Gradually I'm learning more about Debian.

Thanks again - much appreciated.

Russell