On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:52:20PM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote:
> * Andreas Janssen
> > Looks like you are missing some files. Did you install libc6-dev?
> 
> Not that I can remember.  Shouldn't this be taken care of by the
> package system?

You said you installed the kernel-source from a .tar.bz2, not a package.
The kernel-source packages do recommend libc6-dev. gcc also only
recommends libc6-dev because it's sometimes used standalone.

> Anyway, I just saw another recommendation:
> 
> apt-get install kernel-package
> 
> However, I couldn't find anything residing on /usr/src, so this was
> obviously wrong.
> 
> In Redhat and SuSE the kernel just is there.  But in Debian it is
> nowhere.

That's what the kernel-source-(VERSION) packages are for.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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