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Often, in Debian, when you install a module from source, install proprietary Video Drivers (I'm looking at you Nvidia), or the Guest Additions in VirtualBox, you need some or all of the current Kernel Headers, the appropriate Compiler and the appropriate source code. Module assistant can make it easy for you to do some or all of those things. For example you can use it to download and prepare the kernel headers and make sure the build tools are available before you manually run another script, or you can use Module Assistant to prepare all available modules for you to choose which one to compile and install. The Debian Wiki has an excellent run-down on using Module Assistant both in command line and interactive mode. It also has a complete listing of available modules for the Debian kernel.
http://wiki.debian.org/ModuleAssistant
Each of the tasks I mentioned above is deserving of its own post, even if it is short so as to make it all easier to find, however they are all interwoven. An additional post I'll make is how to change the default gcc compiler version, since sometimes this is needed - as it was with the installation of the Lenny NVidia drivers.
Later ...........
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