kernelnewbies.kernelnewbies.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: pritambankar1988@gmail.com (Pritam Bankar)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Unable to locate package kernel-headers-XXX
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 18:23:44 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE6Wm-tjtWDJeQenhf2pkf3Sn7BkTk8Oxf1-UJRoTRcUiuWmAw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADzUK1JBDh5iB_pE63qKHjN7AWtZwtxbRq6EU=dCMiJsx8_11A@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Autif Khan <autif.mlist@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Sraddha <dhakatevaishali@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I have faced this problem before. I want to compile a Device driver
> module ,
> > simple thing as hello world for my kernel. I want to use the headers
> instead
> > of downloading t entire source.
> >
> > I do this sudo apt-get install kernel-headers-$(uname -r)
> >
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > E: Unable to locate package kernel-headers-2.6.38-13-generic
> > E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'kernel-headers-2.6.38-13-generic'
> >
> > How in the world shall I ever get these headers. Regards
>
> Assuming that you are on ubuntu
>
> #apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
>
> You can also use
>
> #apt-cache search linux | grep headers to see what all is available.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Kernelnewbies mailing list
> Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
> http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
>


Easiest way, go and download them

http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid-updates/linux-headers-2.6.38-13-generic


-- 

Pritam Bankar
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20120402/da6e572a/attachment.html 

      reply	other threads:[~2012-04-02 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-09 15:51 Unable to locate package kernel-headers-XXX Sraddha
2012-03-09 15:58 ` Vladimir Murzin
2012-03-09 15:59 ` Autif Khan
2012-04-02 12:53   ` Pritam Bankar [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=CAE6Wm-tjtWDJeQenhf2pkf3Sn7BkTk8Oxf1-UJRoTRcUiuWmAw@mail.gmail.com \
    --to=pritambankar1988@gmail.com \
    --cc=kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).