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http://askubuntu.com – I have a server with ubuntu 12.04 and when I try to install xtables-addon with this command module-assistant auto-install xtables-addons-source I get this error Bad luck, the kernel headers for the target kernel version could not be found and you did not specify other valid kernel headers to use. If the running kernel has been shipped with the Debian distribution, please install the package linux-headers-3.2.13-grsec-xxxx-grs-ipv6-64. If your kernel source tree (or headers) is located in some non-usual location,please set the KERNELDIRS environment variable to the path of this directory, or (HowTos)

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