First off, I am running Debian 9, Stretch. I know it is old and I should
upgrade and that is something I want to do.
The primary problem is that I have a lot of important systems (email,
cloud), and other less important (web host). Simple dist-upgrades have
always broken my mail server, that I was not immediately able to recover
(fortunately, I had made a backup before). I have tried a couple of
times to upgrade, but all attempts have failed. Thus, why I am still
stick on 9. I don't like it, and still want to upgrade.
All that said, also I have been stuck on installing a simple nvidia
driver, also for months. I can install both the backports version and
the downloaded from nvidia version, but a driver can never be loaded
because of some linux headers error. I know nvidia and linux have never
been nice to each other.
I think these problems are related.
I currently have 4.19.0-0.bpo.amd64 headers. I try rebuilding them, also
tried going back to 4.9.0-13--but the former still stays. the nvidia
installer always says it can't find the kernel to build the driver. If
my system keeps saying it's 4.19.0-0.bpo, why isn't it in the standard
location? I have tried to locate it, but I cannot find it?
How can i find the linux header, to point my driver to?
thanks in advance, sorry for the long sob story.
