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Reputation: 2249

Kernel headers for 3.16.0-rc4-00142-g47ea8dd-dirty cannot be found

I have cloned latest Linux kernel code from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git. I have build the code using "make" and installed the build-image using "make install".

But, the installation log contains error that it's unable to find kernel headers for the installed kernel. "Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 3.16.0-rc4-00142-g47ea8dd-dirty cannot be found. Please install the linux-headers-3.16.0-rc4-00142-g47ea8dd-dirty package, or use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located"

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 which has 3.13.0-30-generic headers. I have executed "sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.16.0-rc4-00142-g47ea8dd-dirty" but it's showing "E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-3.16.0-rc4-00142-g47ea8dd-dirty". Please suggest what to do to install kernel 3.16.0-rc4-00142-g47ea8dd-dirty headers.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 791

Answers (1)

askb
askb

Reputation: 6786

Simply follow the steps from this link for re-building the kernel on ubuntu. If you have build the kernel as per the above steps you should see the linux-{image,headers}*.deb files created in parent directory. These should be installed using sudo dpkg -i <path/to/package/name>
Also you can check why you are getting the dirty string appended at the end of the kernel version string. this is possibly due to uncommitted changes or some new files being added.

Upvotes: 2

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