On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 05:44:44PM +0000, Russell Gadd wrote: > I'm trying to install Virtualbox Guest addtions and at one point the > recommended install procedure says do > aptitude install build-essential kernel-header-`uname -r` > > The kernel-header bit comes out as kernel-header-2.6.18-6-686 > Aptitude reports "could'nt find any package whose name or description > matched kernel-header-2.6.18-6-686" > > When I go into aptitude and search for kernel-header the package I find is > linux-kernel-headers with a version number of 2.6.18-7 (which is installed) > > I find the 7 a bit confusing as the installed kernel is 2.6.18-6 which is > the one on the latest r3 release iso.
I know naught of Virtualbox, but I think the package you probably want is 'linux-headers-2.6-686', the meta-package that depends on the latest kernel headers for 686 architecture, *or* you could install the latest directly with 'linux-headers-2.6.18-6-686' A
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