> I don't know why there is a libc5-dev. If I install a new kernel, > it comes with its only kernel headers. Is it necessary to install > lib5-dev in order to compile programs.
Yes. The kernel headers are not enough to compile even a normal "Hello, world!" program. <stdio.h> etc are libc headers, and are in the libc5-dev package. > Also, if I install libc5-dev, > can I still install a newer version of linux kernel whenever it is > available. Yes. As I understand it, the kernel source does not use the /usr/include/asm etc; it uses its own linux/include/asm. The only reason that libc5-dev contains kernel headers is that the kernel headers change quite often, and have broken normal compilation a couple of patchlevels back. Hope this helps, Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
