2.6.11.6 Kernel Headers

Jesterace · 03-28-2005, 11:00 AM

I've installed slack 10.1 and instead of using the old kernel I usually upgrade to the newest one. Now the one question I have is how would one make new kernel headers for the 2.6 kernel series? I ended up removing the old ones with pkgtool and I was unable to make scite. which is another subject has anyone successfully built scite. the one at linuxpackages.net installed but i was unable to launch it.

keefaz · 03-28-2005, 11:10 AM

For my part, I never upgrade the kernel-headers package and I never meet a problem with programs or kernel modules compilation.

gandhi · 03-28-2005, 11:15 AM

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Originally posted by Jesterace
I've installed slack 10.1 and instead of using the old kernel I usually upgrade to the newest one. Now the one question I have is how would one make new kernel headers for the 2.6 kernel series? I ended up removing the old ones with pkgtool and I was unable to make scite. which is another subject has anyone successfully built scite. the one at linuxpackages.net installed but i was unable to launch it.

Do you have to make them? Because I merely installed them with installpkg, they should be in the same directory or area on the cd or site you downloaded from, as should the kernel source and alsa drivers.

Jesterace · 03-28-2005, 11:30 AM

I download and compile a vanilla kernel source from kernel.org. I'm not too sure where I'd download the headers from. Perhaps I shouldn't have gotten delete happy :P

__J · 03-28-2005, 11:33 AM

why do you want to do this again? if you do it wrong.....

generally, you need to leave the headers glibc was compiled against installed in /usr/include/* - they can be upgraded, but I wouldn't unless you need to do it, and at that point I'd recompile glibc to match the headers.