Debian – Failed to Update Linux Headers on Debian Stretch

debianlinux-headerslinux-kernel

After running below command i got error:

# apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-4.9.0-3-amd64
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'linux-headers-4.9.0-3-amd64'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-headers-4.9.0-3-amd64'

To troubleshoot i checked following:

# apt-cache search linux-headers
aufs-dkms - DKMS files to build and install aufs
linux-libc-dev-arm64-cross - Linux Kernel Headers for development (for cross-compiling)
linux-libc-dev-armel-cross - Linux Kernel Headers for development (for cross-compiling)
linux-libc-dev-armhf-cross - Linux Kernel Headers for development (for cross-compiling)
linux-libc-dev-mips-cross - Linux Kernel Headers for development (for cross-compiling)
linux-libc-dev-mips64el-cross - Linux Kernel Headers for development (for cross-compiling)
linux-libc-dev-mipsel-cross - Linux Kernel Headers for development (for cross-compiling)
linux-libc-dev-ppc64el-cross - Linux Kernel Headers for development (for cross-compiling)
linux-libc-dev-s390x-cross - Linux Kernel Headers for development (for cross-compiling)
linux-libc-dev-alpha-cross - Linux Kernel Headers for development (for cross-compiling)
linux-libc-dev-hppa-cross - Linux Kernel Headers for development (for cross-compiling)
linux-libc-dev-m68k-cross - Linux Kernel Headers for development (for cross-compiling)
linux-libc-dev-mips64-cross - Linux Kernel Headers for development (for cross-compiling)
linux-libc-dev-powerpc-cross - Linux Kernel Headers for development (for cross-compiling)
linux-libc-dev-powerpcspe-cross - Linux Kernel Headers for development (for cross-compiling)
linux-libc-dev-ppc64-cross - Linux Kernel Headers for development (for cross-compiling)
linux-libc-dev-sh4-cross - Linux Kernel Headers for development (for cross-compiling)
linux-libc-dev-sparc64-cross - Linux Kernel Headers for development (for cross-compiling)
linux-headers-4.9.0-11-all - All header files for Linux 4.9 (meta-package)
linux-headers-4.9.0-11-all-amd64 - All header files for Linux 4.9 (meta-package)
linux-headers-4.9.0-11-amd64 - Header files for Linux 4.9.0-11-amd64
linux-headers-4.9.0-11-common - Common header files for Linux 4.9.0-11
linux-headers-4.9.0-11-common-rt - Common header files for Linux 4.9.0-11-rt
linux-headers-4.9.0-11-rt-amd64 - Header files for Linux 4.9.0-11-rt-amd64
linux-headers-amd64 - Header files for Linux amd64 configuration (meta-package)
linux-headers-rt-amd64 - Header files for Linux rt-amd64 configuration (meta-package)```


and 

# apt-cache search linux-image
linux-headers-4.9.0-11-amd64 - Header files for Linux 4.9.0-11-amd64
linux-headers-4.9.0-11-rt-amd64 - Header files for Linux 4.9.0-11-rt-amd64
linux-image-4.9.0-11-amd64 - Linux 4.9 for 64-bit PCs
linux-image-4.9.0-11-amd64-dbg - Debug symbols for linux-image-4.9.0-11-amd64
linux-image-4.9.0-11-rt-amd64 - Linux 4.9 for 64-bit PCs, PREEMPT_RT
linux-image-4.9.0-11-rt-amd64-dbg - Debug symbols for linux-image-4.9.0-11-rt-amd64
linux-image-amd64 - Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package)
linux-image-amd64-dbg - Debugging symbols for Linux amd64 configuration (meta-package)
linux-image-rt-amd64 - Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package), PREEMPT_RT
linux-image-rt-amd64-dbg - Debugging symbols for Linux rt-amd64 configuration (meta-package)
linux-image-4.9.0-3-amd64 - Linux 4.9 for 64-bit PCs

After running apt-cache search linux-image i get linux-image-4.9.0-3-amd64 kernal version which i want in the result of apt-cache search linux-headers command also.

Few people suggested to change sources.list and then try. But as i am new to this i don't have idea how to search proper link for sources.list and what will be best suited to resolve my problem.

I did search on google but did not find solution. Any link or solution which can provide solution will be of great help.

Best Answer

For

apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

to work, you need to be running a kernel which is still available from the distribution repositories; in most cases, this basically means you need to be running the latest supported kernel for your distribution.

On Debian, the simplest option is

apt-get update
apt-get install linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64

(adjust to your architecture) to get the current kernel and matching headers, then reboot.

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Package description from debian:

This package provides the architecture-specific kernel header files for Linux kernel 2.6.32-5-686, generally used for building out-of-tree kernel modules. These files are going to be installed into /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-5-686, and can be used for building modules that load into the kernel provided by the linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 package.

kernel-headers are also not a part of a system runtime. So precisely spoken there is no use-case for stripping unused header files from the package. However the original description restricts this by saying generally and limits it's usage to build kernel modules. If you are running a custom kernel which was built with kpkg, then you may also relink your /usr/include/{linux,asm,asm-generic} headers to be able to properly compile other sources.

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First, the yes '' | make oldconfig step is more easily done by way of make olddefconfig.

Having said that,

What happens is that the kernel's Makefile generates a number of files inside a debian/ directory which are not completely following the spec. Combined with a gradual stricter enforcement of this spec in the build tools over the years, means that a hack which used to work in the past (generating .deb packages which aren't listed in debian/control, or which are listed but whose details differ) don't work anymore these days.

Personally, I recommend against the make deb-pkg method of building a Debian package of a vanilla kernel. If you want to do that, a method which works better IME is to use the kernel-package package which is part of Debian proper:

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make defconfig
make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot kernel_image

This should get you a package (with the .config file you created) that you can install on your Debian system.

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