[ale] Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "linux-headers-uname -r"

[yahoo at jimpop.com (Jim Popovitch)]

On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 17:27 -0400, Scully Wu wrote:
> 
> 
> I am installing a vmware on my computer. The host is Ubuntu 7.04. 
> 
> The first step, I just want to make a good experiment by
> 
> aptitude install linux-headers'-uname -r',
> but it shows:
> "
> Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched
> "linux-headers-uname -r"
> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
> upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> "
> 
> I tried to update my packages repositories
> etc/apt/sources.list,
> aptitude update
> aptitude upgrade,
> 
> but the error message doesn't change. 
> What should I do? Thanks

First, you need to use ` (back-tick) not ' (apostrophe).

I think the package you really want is "linux-headers-generic" which
will always install the proper headers for the kernel you are running.

-Jim P.

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