location of dir of C header files? VMWARE install..
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location of dir of C header files? VMWARE install..
Hi,
I'm running RH9, i am quite new to linux and have ran into quite a lot of issues.
Trying to install VMWARE 4.x
part of the installation it has came to the question..
Q. What is the location of the directory of C header files that matche your running kernel [usr/src/linux/include]
- not that the /usr/src/linux (there was no linux folder!!)
only 'debug' and 'redhat' <-- empty dirs of dir!
i did a 'whereis include' to find the folder n located it to "/usr/local/include" so i just tried to point it there. Someone please correct me how to find the right folder in future. =)
then..
Q. The path "/usr/loca/include" is an existing directory, but it does not contain at least one of these directories "linux", "asm", "net" as expected.
where is this C header files directory containing ASM, NET, LINUX etc etc??
to find files/directories, you should use either 'locate' or 'find'.
whereis is generally used to find specific apps on the machine.
:locate file-name
:find / -name "file-name" (this will search everything under /
if you had done an 'updatedb', then locate is faster.
as for not finding the "linux" folder under "/usr/src", could it be because you have not gotten the kernel source? the "linux" under /usr/src is a symlink to the kernel source tree, and unless you specified during ur first install of linux to include the kernel source (i think it was under the package header "kernel development" or some), it doesnt install it.
it should be on one of those cd's you have - so select that package (the kernel source package), and get it on the system.
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