On June 28, 2007 06:39:06 pm Nirmal Govindaraju wrote: > Hi, > > I am a new Linux user and I have the Debian distribution (2.6.18-4-686) > installed via the internet using a few floppy disks to perform the initial > boot up. I am now trying to install a VPN client on my computer and during > the installation procedure the installer asks for the kernel header files. > I could not find them in /usr/src nor did the following command find any > files (with various permutations): > > find / -name '*kernel-header*' -print > > Please let me know as to what I need to do to get these header files. Thank > you.
The packages are now named linux-* instead of kernel-*, the easiest way to do what you want is install the module-assistant package then run the command without the quotes "m-a prepare" this should download headers for your running kernel and setup the proper links for building. > Nirmal Stephen -- GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc
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