C Header Files

[Dy0nisus]

Hi!

I'm running al Strato - Root - Server with debian 3.1.

While trying to install VMWare - Server i need the path to the kernel header files ... but i only know where they oar NOT

/usr/src/linux/include not existing
/lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build/include not existing

Does somebody know where they are?

header-files are installed i checked this with apt.

regards

[rayit]

on debian 4 I do

apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` libx11-6 libx11-dev x-window-system-core x-window-system xspecs libxtst6 psmisc build-essential


after that start installation and it should find it automatically

RayIT

[Dy0nisus]

wired ...

E: Konnte Paket linux-headers-2.6.8-3-686 nicht finden

this is the error i get ... but the newest kernel should be installed ...

[chuckl]

Normally in Debian, the headers would be in /usr/src/ as a folder called kernel-headers-2.6.8-3-686

Your best course is to run apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.8-3-686 If the headers are installed, apt will say something like 'already latest version', if not it will install them for you.

[Dy0nisus]

/usr/src is empty ...

a newer kernel should be installed ... dunno why apt wants to install linux-headers-2.6.8-3-686?!

[chuckl]

Sorry, your first post mentioned -4-686, not -3.

What is the result of uname -r?

If usr/src is empty, either you don't have any kernel headers installed, or they're being installed somewhere else. Certainly on any Debian or Ubuntu install I've ever seen that is where they go, but it might be different on a Strat?

[Dy0nisus]

output: 2.6.8-3-686


but in /lib/modules:

2.6.18-4-686 2.6.18-5-686 2.6.8-3-686

do i have to activate the newer kernel images?

[chuckl]

Then the running kernel is 2.6.8-3-686

There may weel be newer kernels there, but if the running kernel has been patched in any way, quite likely on a strato I would imagine, then they are not going to be loaded. e.g. I have Ubuntu running on a Proliant server that has the HP monitoring software added. Every time I run apt-get upgrade it tells me that 'linux-image-server' has been kept back, for that reason.

But getting back to VMWare, in order to compile a compatible kernel, it needs the source code header files for the running kernel, in you case 2.6.8-3-686, as well as several other libraries.

apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.8-3-686 and
apt-get install libx11-6 libxtst6 libice-dev libsm-dev libxt6

Might need xinetd as well.

That should allow it to do it's thing for your running kernel. Obviously, if you change to a newer kernel, the header requirements here will change.

[Dy0nisus]

and that is the problem ... apt can't find linux-headers-2.6.8-3-686

[chuckl]

Can you post the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list?