Comments on: Debian / Ubuntu linux install kernel headers package

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:52:22 +0000

XMBC ferezes badly – as in, horribly (sound loops until I shut down my computer) on my comp when I pause it.

By: Kayhan KAYIHAN

Kayhan KAYIHAN — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:43:33 +0000

good method, thanks.

By: Cosmin

Cosmin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:17:44 +0000

Thank you very much, I spent a lot of time searching forums for a solution for this and you solved it in three lines of text.

By: Wylie Bayes

Wylie Bayes — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:18:27 +0000

You can download the kernel header files for your architecture and desired kernel as .deb files and install with dpkg as well. So you can have the .deb’s to bring to your offline system :)

By: Janis

Janis — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:33:31 +0000

probably need to ask the hardware developer for that

By: Samy

Samy — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:30:24 +0000

Hi Deric,

I am also facing the same issue now. I need to have kernel package 2.6.35.3-744-g27fdf7b to build kernel module. If you have found where to get it. Please share the information.

Regards,
Swamy

By: Deric

Deric — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:27:33 +0000

I have a Freescale i.MX53 quick start board. I need to compile a kernel module for it so I want to install the kernel headers package . The “uname -r” and “ls /lib/modules” both show 2.6.35.3-744-g27fdf7b.

First of all, “sudo apt-get update” has a connection error (I verfied the Internet connection is working for this board):
W: Failed to fetch ftp://10.192.225.224/dists/fsl/bsp/binary-armel/Packages.gz
Unable to connect to 10.192.225.224:ftp:

Second, apt-get can not find the package linux-headers-2.6.35.3 or linux-headers-2.6.35.3-744 or linux-headers-2.6.35.3-744-g27fdf7b.

Can somebody help me out?

Thank you.

By: bst

bst — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:01:17 +0000

Thanks alot. saved me a formatting as this was driving me crazy.

By: Sudipta Kumar Sahoo

Sudipta Kumar Sahoo — Tue, 24 May 2011 12:39:58 +0000

I am trying to install the alien file in my OS(Ubuntu 11.04). I am using the command sudo apt-get install alien. but it is saying that package not found.
When ever I am typeing the command
$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
It is showing the as
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
linux-headers-2.6.38-8-generic is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
What to do.How can I install alien. Because I have to install my rpm files as deb file.

respond soon pls

By: Janis

Janis — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:17:32 +0000

uname -r returns
2.6.32.2-bifferboard
where to get such source and how to use it? I am neewby may be someone could help

By: Kingsak

Kingsak — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:24:11 +0000

When I run apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) . I get this error message
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
linux-headers-2.6.26-2-amd64: Depends: linux-kbuild-2.6.26 but it is not installable
Depends: gcc-4.1 but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

By: Jase

Jase — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:15:47 +0000

Same problem as above but using Ubuntu 10.10 server as I need to install VMware server 2.0

By: subhash

subhash — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:29:35 +0000

Hi i am using the ubuntu 10.04 in which I have installed the linux 2.6.37 kernel. In case i am using the sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) its giving the following….Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘linux-headers-2.6.37′

Any idea what is wrong?

By: Dennis

Dennis — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:53:54 +0000

Thx a lot! of all the mad googling ive done, only You were the one that helped me get it done, fast and simple.
You have a great site, by the way. thx! keep it up.

Shout out from Germany

By: antonio

antonio — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:19:00 +0000

$(uname-r) is cool, thanks

By: darkstar

darkstar — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:03:07 +0000

thanks man, I used the synaptic method for updating headers. Did not know that the kernel does not need to be rebuilt for updating until now :)

By: chief

chief — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:08:58 +0000

Thanks

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By: cparker

cparker — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:04:04 +0000

Awesome tip with the “linux-headers-$(uname-r)” bit, Vivek. Thanks!

By: gaspar

gaspar — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:53:36 +0000

You have to gain root access with su , of course. The type visudo and write at the end of file “your login name ALL(ALL)= ALL” and save it.