Hello everybody!
I am using Slackware for 1 1/2 years and till now I have always been using the kernel binaries provided by the slackware site but since the 2.6 version came out I am very interested in testing it, so I decided to compile it myself.
With the binaries I need 3 packages, kernel-ide, kernel-modules, and kernel-headers.
As far as I know, compiling the kernel means to create the kernel file and the modules. I would like to ask what about the kernel-headers, how do I install it?

The kernel source comes with its' own headers. You should unpack the source in your home directory and compile it there instead of placing it the /usr/src/linux tree.
The kernel headers package contains the headers that the binaries in the other packages are linked to. The kernel headers package is matched to the glibc libraries that were used to compile everything. Leave these in place for compiling other binaries.
Somewhere I have a link to a posting by Linus Torvalds discussing this matter, but, typically I don't find it at the moment.

http://seclists.org/linux-kernel/2000/Jul/4404.html

Here it is...

Apparently, there is nothing much to do with Slackware. Kernel headers provided with your earlier version of Slack should do the business. The thing is that you must have kernel headers that match the glibc. If not you'll probably get some errors.

I think compiling the kernel as the parent said, without upgrading the Kernel headers is the best way to do it.

I'm afraid that upgrading the Kernel headers will force you to upgrade your glibc too. You to see if your config is too old or not.

Hey, now it all starts to make more sense!! There is a small snipet of that posting by Linus in the Linux from scratch book(5.0), the oddball symlinks were the main topic in the book, but something else goes with this----------,

.....If I'm using Slack 9.0 and want to upgrade the default kernel(2.4.20) to the kernel version that Slack 9.1 uses(2.4.22) I just need to re-compile from source only and not goof around with the kernel (IDE, Headers, or Modules) packages, because upgrading the Headers will require the upgrade of Glibc from 2.3.1 to 2.3.2, and if you upgrade the Glibc libraries you will need to upgrade........the Modules package to match it all.......

LOL, once you get the ball rolling, .......the fun never stops........
but, I would'nt trade Slack for anything...........