Missing headers for 6.18 kernel

[ChrisO]

Hi

I installed Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.151_Odroidhc4_trixie_current_6.18.2_minimal.img

Trying to build zfs-dkms I discovered that I was missing the linux-headers for this kernel version
and there is no package containing it. At least apt-cache didn't find anything.

Any idea where to find it?

Thanks,
Chris

[Werner]

There are no header packages for each and every trunk version to save resources.

Most simple solution is probably DIY an image with INSTALL_HEADERS=yes to have them shipped with the image.

[Gaetano]

Thanks Werner. Meanwhile I have tried a minimal image and did not plug the ethernet cable it, the Armbian initial boot script installed the drivers and connected seamlessly to wifi. No need for the marrownr external driver, so the headers problem is no longer a problem.

 

Now I am keeping my fingers crossed that the OTG will work (it didn't work with Johang's latest images. So I created my own using hte armbian compilation script. It doesn't have Trixie for pcduino3nano, but bookworm should work.

 

Cheers,

Gaetano.

Edited Saturday at 01:00 PM by Gaetano

[Gaetano]

Hi Chris,

 

when I tried to install the headers on my pcduino3nano, there were two options: linux-headers-armmp (or equivalent for your board) and kernel-headers. This secong package name was incomplete, but apt suggested a list of possible matches for my system. Give that a try.

 

Cheers,

Gaetano.

[ChrisO]

Thanks Werner and Gaetano

I fear DIY an image exceeds my skils 😉

I tried linux-headers-arm64. Result: kernel downgraded to 6.12 and wrong links in /boot:

 

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       30 Dec 29 22:28 Image -> vmlinuz-6.18.2-current-meson64
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       27 Jan 23 13:27 uInitrd -> uInitrd-6.12.63+deb13-arm64

Corrected, built ZFS but at the end USB not working. It's not worth the hassle.

I ended up installing 

Armbian_25.8.1_Odroidhc4_bookworm_current_6.12.41_minimal.img

Everything seams OK, especially ZFS.

 

Anyway, the link to Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.151_Odroidhc4_trixie_current_6.18.2_minimal.img is not there anymore 🙂

 

Thanks for your time.

Chris

 

Edited yesterday at 11:27 AM by ChrisO

[Igor]

On 1/26/2026 at 12:24 PM, ChrisO said:

Anyway, the link to Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.151_Odroidhc4_trixie_current_6.18.2_minimal.img is not there anymore

Old automated builds are not kept. Only last three releases https://github.com/armbian/community/releases Its 300Gb / week