What is the location of my Linux headers?

[Ryan Escarez]

On 10/27/05, Dave M G <martin at autotelic.com> wrote:
> Ubuntu Users,
>        When running the command "sudo dpkg-reconfigure wacom-kernel-source",
> I'm presented with the following question:
>
> You have choosen to compile the wacom modules, so you must specify the
> location of the Linux kernel headers for them to use.
> When Linux headers are provided by a kernel-headers-* package, they
> reside in /usr/src/kernel-headers-*.
> What is the location of your Linux headers?
>
>        I thought these "headers" weould be in /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.12,
> but it says it can't find them there.
>
>        Where are they?
>
>        And if anyone is wondering, I'm doing this because I'm trying,
> desperately, to get my Wacom tablet working. It's stuck in "absolute"
> mode, which sucks completely.
>


you can ask apt-get if you have linux header installed

$ apt-get install linux-header$(uname -r)


optionally, you might have to symlink the linux header

$ sudo ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r) /usr/src/linux


hth

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Ryan Escarez
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