# How to install header files for volumio??

**URL:** <https://community.volumio.com/t/how-to-install-header-files-for-volumio/3727>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [March 9, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/how-to-install-header-files-for-volumio/3727 "2016-03-09T16:21:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![AudiophilePi](https://community.volumio.com/user_avatar/community.volumio.com/audiophilepi/32/4311_2.png) [@AudiophilePi](https://community.volumio.com/u/AudiophilePi)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/how-to-install-header-files-for-volumio/3727/1 "2016-03-09T16:21:24Z")

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To be able to compile drivers of various sorts, you need to install the linux header files. If you haven’t installed them, the ‘make’ command isn’t even available! Now it seems that the header files for volumio can’t be found or don’t exist! I searched for answers on the forum, but nowhere it seems to be solved. What can we do? What can I do?

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**Author:** ![AudiophilePi](https://community.volumio.com/user_avatar/community.volumio.com/audiophilepi/32/4311_2.png) [@AudiophilePi](https://community.volumio.com/u/AudiophilePi)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/how-to-install-header-files-for-volumio/3727/2 "2016-03-09T18:03:59Z")

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I tried the command I found [here](https://volumio.org/forum/kernel-headers-needed-t824.html):

```auto
apt-cache search linux-headers
```

and installed the header file collection ending with ‘-all’. This seemed to go pretty well. Then I rebooted. But later on, when I tried to compile a driver, error messages saying the header files for my cubox couldn’t be found. I am a layman. I don’t know how to do this right.