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roger
2014-03-30, 18:39
hi, i am having difficulty in running virtualbox and vmware on my kali.i keep getting the same warning about missing the above headers..i have looked through many sites without finding a solution.
this is a copy of my source list
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 _Kali_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20130723-12:53]/ kali contrib main non-free

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 _Kali_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20130723-12:53]/ kali contrib main non-free

deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali main non-free contrib
deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali main non-free contrib
deb http://http.kali.org/ /wheezy main contrib non-free
deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-dev main contrib non-free
deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-dev main/debian-installer
deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali main contrib non-free
deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali main/debian-installer
deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali main contrib non-free

## Security updates
deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://repo.kali.org/kali kali-bleeding-edge main

any help would be great

g0tmi1k
2014-03-31, 09:04
The 3.7 kernel headers are no longer in the repo.


root@kali ~$ apt-cache search linux-headers
linux-headers-3.12-kali1-486 - Header files for Linux 3.12-kali1-486
linux-headers-3.12-kali1-686-pae - Header files for Linux 3.12-kali1-686-pae
linux-headers-3.12-kali1-all - All header files for Linux 3.12 (meta-package)
linux-headers-3.12-kali1-all-i386 - All header files for Linux 3.12 (meta-package)
linux-headers-3.12-kali1-amd64 - Header files for Linux 3.12-kali1-amd64
linux-headers-3.12-kali1-common - Common header files for Linux 3.12-kali1
linux-headers-3.12-kali1-common-rt - Common header files for Linux 3.12-kali1-rt
linux-headers-3.12-kali1-rt-686-pae - Header files for Linux 3.12-kali1-rt-686-pae
linux-headers-486 - Header files for Linux 486 configuration (meta-package)
linux-headers-686-pae - Header files for Linux 686-pae configuration (meta-package)
linux-headers-amd64 - Header files for Linux amd64 configuration (meta-package)
linux-headers-rt-686-pae - Header files for Linux rt-686-pae configuration (meta-package)
root@kali ~$



Update to 3.12 (apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade), afterwards, reboot your machine into the new kernel (on the grub menu select 3.12) and try again.


root@kali ~$ uname -a
Linux kali 3.12-kali1-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.12.6-2kali1 (2014-01-06) i686 GNU/Linux
root@kali ~$

ramused
2014-05-04, 21:10
i couldn't get in the 3.12, it didn't appear to me...