UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

This is the error:
http://imgur.com/1ywCKac

I've tried Googling forever. I've tried this command:

Code:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

It says the package is not found.

Nothing works. Please help.

This is pretty tough one. Depends on the OS you have got. Have you tried:

Code:

apt-cache search headers

Sometimes there are no headers coresponding to your currently running kernel therefore you got the error.

It is quite simple: this is not one of the standard Debian or Ubuntu-kernels, but a OpenVZ-kernel. In fact, it is a RHEL-kernel, patched for usage as the kernel for a OpenVZ hardware node. Therefore you looked simply at the wrong place. You have to get it from the OpenVZ project.

But it even gets simpler: googling for "download kernel headers 2.6.32-042stab078.22" gave me as first hit:

https://wiki.openvz.org/Download/ker.../042stab078.22

Google is your friend, you know....

I hope this helps.

bakunin

I tried installing the rpm file. I'm running Debian 7 wheezy BTW.

It didn't work, same error

If you are running Debian you can't be running OpenVZ (and vice versa). OpenVZ is basically a kernel patch and you have to use the one for exactly your base kernel. Issue a uname -a and have a look for what kernel exactly you are running. Post its output here instead of letting us guess.

I took the kernel version you probably might run from the picture you linked here, but a display of "uname -a" would remove all doubt.

Finally: what "didn't work"? What exactly did you do and which results did you get? Were there error messages, error codes, can you show screen shots? (copy and paste the contents from the text console and put it here using CODE-tags instead of some graphical window which shows nothing). You come across like someone who - instead of visiting his doctor - just calls him and says "it's aching somewhere - what is your diagnose?".

bakunin

"Uname -a" gives me "2.6.32-042stab078.22". And by "didn't work" I mean it installs successfully, but when I try to open VMware player I get the same error as I screenshotted above

Somehow i do not believe this to be the output of "uname -a", but this is just an aside.

It will surely help to solve your problem if you do not take arbitrary bits of information you deem important out of command outputs (if your sense of what is important would be so hot stuff why haven't you solved your problem alone?) but in fact provide the information you are asked for. I suggest you read the classic: How to Ask Questions the Smart Way.

You run a RHEL OpenVZ kernel and therefore i doubt you are on a Debian system at all. Using OpenVZ and then "start VMWare player" is just as well not making sense: use "vzctl" to manage virtual machines, this is the whole point of having OpenVZ installed, no?


I hope this helps.