C header files matching the kernel

Darlene Wallach freepalestin at dslextreme.com
Sat Dec 23 00:27:08 UTC 2006


Evan Panagiotopoulos wrote:
> I am installing VMware and it is asking for the location of the directory
> of C header files that match the running kernel. I searched and found the
> directory: /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2868.fc6-i586/include/linux. There is
> another directory with a little different version:
> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2849.fc6-i586/include/linux. I am just wondering
> if the .h files are the header VMware is asking for?
> 
> Thanks,
> 

The
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2868.fc6-i586/include/linux
has the header files for the kernel-2.6.18-1.2868.fc6-i586
which looks to be the more recent of the two kernels
you appear to have on your system. If you type "uname -r"
at your prompt, what is returned?

Darlene




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