when I try installing the nvidia drive the ‘hard way’ I get this error:
ERROR: The kernel header file 'usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h' does not exist. The most likely reason for this that the kernel source files in '/usr/src/linux' have not been configured
It’s a 64-bit system running Tumbleweed and the driver version is: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-275.09.07.run
I have kernel-source and kernel-syms installed as well as the necessary C/C++ stuff
Any ideas why I’m getting this and/or how I might go about fixing it?
Thanks for replying caf4926 and swerdna … I was asleep at the time
When I install opensuse I always add the patterns Base Development, C/C++ Development and Linux Kernel Development before starting anything else and I’ve triple-checked that everything which normally gets pulled in by those patterns has in fact been installed
I’m as sure as can be without posting screenshots of Yast’s Software Manager for someone else to check that I have all the necessary libraries installed, first thing I did check when I saw the error
The libraries are there but the file version.h is indeed missing, I have forced updates of every development package in those three patterns just in case any of them didn’t fully install properly but it didn’t make any difference
I don’t even know though which particular package the file version.h file nvidia’s installer is complaining about belongs to, tried using the ‘RPM Provides’ checkbox in Software Manager to look for version.h and according to that, nothing provides it
Didn’t expect it to work, but just in case I tried installing a slightly older version of the driver I still had which had previously installed correctly on this machine
I ran the zypper dup and the kernel I’m using is the one I ended up with
If I try zypper dup --from Tumbleweed to pull in a kernel from Tumbleweed I get these conflicts:
4 Problems:
Problem: nothing provides marble-data = 4.6.3 needed by marble-4.6.3-4.5.i586
Problem: konqueror-plugins-lang-4.3.1-11.14.2.noarch requires konqueror-plugins = 4.3.1, but this requirement cannot be provided
Problem: vmware-guest-kmp-desktop-2011.05.27_k2.6.37.6_0.5-0.3.3.x86_64 requires ksym(desktop:init_timer_key) = 3168f5d, but this requirement cannot be provided
Problem: libtag1-1.7-10.1.x86_64 requires libc.so.6()(64bit), but this requirement cannot be provided
Problem: nothing provides marble-data = 4.6.3 needed by marble-4.6.3-4.5.i586
Solution 1: Following actions will be done:
keep obsolete marble-4.6.0-3.5.x86_64
keep obsolete marble-data-4.6.0-3.1.noarch
Solution 2: Following actions will be done:
deinstallation of marble-4.6.0-3.5.x86_64
deinstallation of digikam-lang-1.9.0-71.21.noarch
Solution 3: break marble by ignoring some of its dependencies
Choose from above solutions by number or skip, retry or cancel [1/2/3/s/r/c] (c): 2
Problem: konqueror-plugins-lang-4.3.1-11.14.2.noarch requires konqueror-plugins = 4.3.1, but this requirement cannot be provided
Solution 1: deinstallation of konqueror-plugins-lang-4.3.1-11.14.2.noarch
Solution 2: keep obsolete konqueror-plugins-4.3.1-11.14.2.x86_64
Solution 3: break konqueror-plugins-lang by ignoring some of its dependencies
Choose from above solutions by number or skip, retry or cancel [1/2/3/s/r/c] (c): 2
Problem: vmware-guest-kmp-desktop-2011.05.27_k2.6.37.6_0.5-0.3.3.x86_64 requires ksym(desktop:init_timer_key) = 3168f5d, but this requirement cannot be provided
uninstallable providers: kernel-desktop-2.6.37.1-1.2.2.i586[repo-oss]
kernel-desktop-base-2.6.37.1-1.2.2.i586[repo-oss]
kernel-desktop-2.6.37.1-1.2.2.x86_64[repo-oss]
kernel-desktop-base-2.6.37.1-1.2.2.x86_64[repo-oss]
kernel-desktop-base-2.6.37.6-0.5.1.x86_64[repo-update]
kernel-desktop-base-2.6.37.6-0.5.1.i586[repo-update]
Solution 1: Following actions will be done:
deinstallation of vmware-guest-kmp-desktop-2011.05.27_k2.6.37.6_0.5-0.3.3.x86_64
deinstallation of ndiswrapper-kmp-desktop-1.56_k2.6.37.1_1.2-11.3.x86_64
Solution 2: keep obsolete kernel-desktop-2.6.37.6-0.5.1.x86_64
Solution 3: install kernel-desktop-base-2.6.37.6-0.5.1.x86_64 from excluded repository
Solution 4: break vmware-guest-kmp-desktop by ignoring some of its dependencies
Choose from above solutions by number or skip, retry or cancel [1/2/3/4/s/r/c] (c):
Gotta rush out and take my kid for a haircut appointment so I’ll have a closer look when I get back
deinstallation of vmware-guest-kmp-desktop-2011.05.27_k2.6.37.6_0.5-0.3.3.x86_64 deinstallation of ndiswrapper-kmp-desktop-1.56_k2.6.37.1_1.2-11.3.x86_64
But you may have to be brutal, the darn things take over (kernels I mean).
Just abort and try again if it looks messy, you’ll get the feel of it. Look carefully at what it plans to do. I would work in Software Manager and use the switcher on Tumbleweed.
Installed a newer kernel from the Tumbleweed repo, deleted some other stuff, upgraded yet more stuff, switched even more stuff over to the versions from Tumbleweed, halfway through doing all that I got the nvidia driver to install
For some reason now Akregator keeps saying I don’t have flash even though I can watch web videos … but that’s a whole other story and if I can’t fix it, another thread
It does kinda seem that using the --from Tumbleweed switch on the first ‘run’ may be a less problematic way to do things given the kernel mixups I ended up with when just using zypper dup
Thanks for your input there caf4926, sometimes it just takes one little hint from someone wiser than oneself to get ya on the right track
