[SOLVED] Help installing "linux-headers" & "linux-headers-generic"

[Dunuin]

Hi,

I need to install the mellanox firmware tools (mft) but for that I need to install "linux-headers" & "linux-headers-generic".

But I get this:

root@Hypervisor:~/tools/mft/mft-4.16.1-9-x86_64-deb# apt-get install linux-headers linux-headers-generic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package linux-headers-generic is a virtual package provided by:
  linux-headers-amd64 5.10.13-1~bpo10+1 [Not candidate version]

Package linux-headers is a virtual package provided by:
  pve-headers-5.4.78-2-pve 5.4.78-2
  pve-headers-5.4.78-1-pve 5.4.78-1
  pve-headers-5.4.73-1-pve 5.4.73-1
  pve-headers-5.4.65-1-pve 5.4.65-1
  pve-headers-5.4.60-1-pve 5.4.60-2
  pve-headers-5.4.55-1-pve 5.4.55-1
  pve-headers-5.4.44-2-pve 5.4.44-2
  pve-headers-5.4.44-1-pve 5.4.44-1
  pve-headers-5.4.41-1-pve 5.4.41-1
  pve-headers-5.4.34-1-pve 5.4.34-2
  pve-headers-5.4.30-1-pve 5.4.30-1
  pve-headers-5.4.27-1-pve 5.4.27-1
  pve-headers-5.4.24-1-pve 5.4.24-1
  pve-headers-5.4.22-1-pve 5.4.22-1
  pve-headers-5.3.7-1-pve 5.3.7-1
  pve-headers-5.3.18-3-pve 5.3.18-3
  pve-headers-5.3.18-2-pve 5.3.18-2
  pve-headers-5.3.18-1-pve 5.3.18-1
  pve-headers-5.3.13-3-pve 5.3.13-3
  pve-headers-5.3.13-2-pve 5.3.13-2
  pve-headers-5.3.13-1-pve 5.3.13-1
  pve-headers-5.3.10-1-pve 5.3.10-1
  pve-headers-5.3.1-1-pve 5.3.1-1
  pve-headers-5.0.8-2-pve 5.0.8-2
  pve-headers-5.0.8-1-pve 5.0.8-1
  pve-headers-5.0.21-5-pve 5.0.21-10
  pve-headers-5.0.21-4-pve 5.0.21-9
  pve-headers-5.0.21-3-pve 5.0.21-7
  pve-headers-5.0.21-2-pve 5.0.21-7
  pve-headers-5.0.21-1-pve 5.0.21-2
  pve-headers-5.0.18-1-pve 5.0.18-3
  pve-headers-5.0.15-1-pve 5.0.15-1
  pve-headers-5.0.12-1-pve 5.0.12-1
You should explicitly select one to install.

E: Package 'linux-headers' has no installation candidate
E: Package 'linux-headers-generic' has no installation candidate

What am I supposed to do so it will work with the pve kernel?

 

[t.lamprecht]

Hi,

I need to install the mellanox firmware tools (mft) but for that I need to install "linux-headers" & "linux-headers-generic".

Those are the ones from Debian and won't fit with the Proxmox Kernel, so they must be replaced with pve-headers package.

apt update
apt install pve-headers
# update, nowdays the package is named proxmox-default-headers:
apt install proxmox-default-headers

 

[Dunuin]

Thanks, that worked.