Trying to install VMware Server on debian sarge per how-to guide: http://www.howtoforge.com/debian_sarge_vmware_server_howto Running into this error after running command: # apt-get install kernel-headers-`uname -r` libx11-6 libx11-dev x-window-system-core x-window-system xspecs libxtst6 xlibs-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package kernel-headers-2.6.20 I doing this install after a succesful upgrade of linux kernel 2.6.8-2 to 2.6.20. Following how-to link: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21 When I check the debian site for package kernel-headers it appear that it only shows kernel-headers version for up to kernel-headers-2.6.8... Did some google search on this and it seems quite a few people run into this problem. Any comments/help would be appreciated! Joe
You have installed a custom kernel and thus you cannot use the debian kernel headers. You need to get the header files from kernel.org for the kernel you installed. A quick scan of kernel.org did not reveal the headers for me though Mixing a custom kernel with custom headers on a standard Debian distro might turn out to be less successfull combination
