Installing kernel-headers

Rick Bilonick rab at nauticom.net
Tue Oct 28 04:32:57 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 00:15 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> I'm using 8.04. I'm trying to install the kernel-headers so that I can
> compile the VIA chrome video driver (available at the VIA Linux Portal).
> As far as I can tell, "kernel-headers" is the correct name but I can't
> find it when I use synaptic or apt-get.
> 
> Rick B.
> 
> 
I figured it out:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.24-21-generic

But it says they are already installed so this is not why I can't
compile the VIA driver. I need "autoreconf" but cannot find it or
install it.

Rick B.





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