Problems installing vnstat

[MagiCat]

I'm trying to install vnstat and get the following when I type make from the vnstat-1.4 directory. Is there anything I'm doing wrong? I'm following the directions in the INSTALL directory (pretty simple, make and then make install) but it doesn't work. what am I missing?

[root@vps vnstat-1.4]# ls
CHANGES  FAQ      Makefile  UNINSTALL  cron  pppd
COPYING  INSTALL  README    UPGRADE    man   src
[root@vps vnstat-1.4]# make
make -C src vnstat
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/vnstat-1.4/src'
gcc -O2 -c proc.c
In file included from /usr/include/bits/posix1_lim.h:153,
                 from /usr/include/dirent.h:232,
                 from vnstat.h:9,
                 from proc.c:1:
/usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:36:26: error: linux/limits.h: No such file or dire                        ctory
proc.c: In function 'parseproc':
proc.c:105: warning: integer constant is too large for 'long' type
proc.c:106: warning: integer constant is too large for 'long' type
proc.c:107: warning: integer constant is too large for 'long' type
proc.c:109: warning: integer constant is too large for 'long' type
proc.c:109: warning: integer constant is too large for 'long' type
proc.c:135: warning: integer constant is too large for 'long' type
proc.c:136: warning: integer constant is too large for 'long' type
proc.c:137: warning: integer constant is too large for 'long' type
proc.c:139: warning: integer constant is too large for 'long' type
proc.c:139: warning: integer constant is too large for 'long' type
make[1]: *** [proc.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/vnstat-1.4/src'
make: *** [vnstat] Error 2
[root@vps vnstat-1.4]# make install
Installing vnStat...
install -d /usr/bin /usr/share/man/man1 /etc/cron.d /var/lib/vnstat
install -m 755 src/vnstat /usr/bin
install: cannot stat `src/vnstat': No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error 1

[thisisit3]

"make" failed because it can't find the kernel headers.

[MagiCat]

Is this something that I can fix on my own or is it something that's missing on the server side?

[thisisit3]

It depends. If you have root access then you can fix it yourself by installing the kernel headers, otherwise you can't do anything other than ask support to do it for you.

Why not compile vnstat on your local linux and upload the binaries on the server?