"Your kernel headers for kernel 5.4.72-microsoft-standard-WSL2 cannot be found."

[0x14307]

I'm trying to install a package with dpkg and I get this error:
"Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 5.4.72-microsoft-standard-WSL2 cannot be found.
Please install the linux-headers-5.4.72-microsoft-standard-WSL2 package"

How can I fix this?

[gabefair]

Can you tell us which package or information about the software you are trying to install? For example if it is a 10g lan driver that can help us narrow down the issue.

[0x14307]

I'm trying to install Darling-DKMS.

[0x14307]

I'm trying to install Darling-DKMS.

[onomatopellan]

WSL2 kernel headers are not in the repositories so you will need to follow this darlinghq/darling#260 (comment)

[awaldfogel]

Any update on kernel headers? I'm trying to install a MOXA serial driver whose build relies on exact matches for kernel headers. It's looking for kernel 5.15.79.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 Is there an alternate repository where I can get it? Otherwise I'm stuck with an unsupported tweak on their install directory if I can get the driver to build with the generic headers. Zero interest in building my own kernels!

[zcobol]

You could clone https://github.com/microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel.git and checkout linux-msft-wsl-5.15.79.1. Export the headers and build your module.

[inliquid]

Thank you now initial message disappeared and there is new thing:

fatal error: 'generated/autoconf.h' file not found

[TishSerg]

fatal error: 'generated/autoconf.h' file not found

I have this problem too. Why Microsoft not willing to share fully functional linux-headers for WSL kernel?

[awaldfogel]

Thanks! Was able to build the driver but then modprobe won't let me install it under Docker (which I guess makes sense). Will WSL2 let me modprobe install a driver module in the base image? If it installs the device appears as /dev/ttyrxx. Will those ttyrxx devices then appear in the docker images? I'm new to this.

Trying to consolidate a bunch of services on a single machine. One service has a special requirement to access a remote serial device