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How to manually install Linux Headers for my BeagleBone

Loi Dang
Prodigy 150 points

Hi Everybody

I'm using BeagleBone Black with pre-built Ubuntu Precise 12.04 LTS image at http://www.armhf.com/boards/beaglebone-black/bbb-sd-install/.

Everything's fine, but I need to install some packages that require Linux Header, and I found nothing match my kernel $(uname -r) 3.14.4.1-bone-armhf.com with using apt-cache search

linux-headers-$(uname-r)

Note that my command works fine on my PC.

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

I found the Linux Header http://s3.armhf.com/dist/bone/linux-headers-3.14.4.1-bone-armhf.com.tar.xz, also released by them, but unfortunately, I don't know how to Install Linux Header Manually, or do something useful with it.

Sorry for my bad knowledge base of Linux, please give me some helps, thank you

Best Regards

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    TI__Guru** 116100 points
    Try to copy the headers (include) into your filesystem "/usr" directory.
    Also you can install the headers from your linux source directory.

    make headers_install INSTALL_HDR_PATH=< location > ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf-
    Be default location path is "usr" directory of linux source.

    Do some "make help" in your linux source and check out the "make headers_install" command.
  • 0 in reply to Titusrathinaraj Stalin
    Prodigy 150 points

    Hi Titus, Thank you for your instruction, I'm following that , and then going through 2 documents below

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt

    http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Linux.html

    Exactly what I was doing :

    1. Download and untar http://s3.armhf.com/dist/bone/linux-headers-3.14.4.1-bone-armhf.com.tar.xz

    2. Call 'make headers_install'

    ubuntu@ubuntu-armhf:/usr/src/linux-3.14.4.1-bone.armhf.com$ make headers_install ARCH=arm INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/usr/ CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf-

    3. Call dpkg -L to determine if I installed the headers successful.

    dpkg -L linux-headers-$(uname -r)

    and the result return :

    dpkg-query : package 'linux-headers-3.14.4.1-bone-armhf.com' is not installed
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files
and dpkg --contents (=dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.

    I think it's still not working. What else i need to do then?

    Thank you.

    Best Regards.