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Newbie again: compressed file in /usr/src
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| Teilhard Knight 2005-08-02, 5:47 pm |
| Burning a CD and using dpkg, I finally "installed" my kernel source.
Checking the directory /usr/src, I see I have the file
"kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2". This file contains the folder
"kernel-source-2.6.8". Should I extract it? or leave the compressed file in
place? I know it's a stupid question but we newbies are like that.
Teilhard.
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| Madhusudan Singh 2005-08-02, 5:47 pm |
| Teilhard Knight wrote:
> Burning a CD and using dpkg, I finally "installed" my kernel source.
> Checking the directory /usr/src, I see I have the file
> "kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2". This file contains the folder
> "kernel-source-2.6.8". Should I extract it? or leave the compressed file
> in place? I know it's a stupid question but we newbies are like that.
>
> Teilhard.
tar jxvf kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2 will extract that kernel source.
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| Teilhard Knight 2005-08-02, 5:47 pm |
| "Madhusudan Singh" <spammers-go-here@spam.invalid> wrote in message
news:42efd720$0$18647$14726298@news.sunsite.dk...
> Teilhard Knight wrote:
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> tar jxvf kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2 will extract that kernel source.
Thanks.
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| Bill Marcum 2005-08-02, 5:47 pm |
| On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 14:43:14 -0500, Teilhard Knight
<teilhk@privacy.net> wrote:
> Burning a CD and using dpkg, I finally "installed" my kernel source.
> Checking the directory /usr/src, I see I have the file
> "kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2". This file contains the folder
> "kernel-source-2.6.8". Should I extract it? or leave the compressed file in
> place? I know it's a stupid question but we newbies are like that.
>
Extract it.
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| Teilhard Knight 2005-08-03, 7:46 am |
| "Bill Marcum" <bmarcum@iglou.com.urgent> wrote in message
news:to35s2-2ro.ln1@don.localnet...
> On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 14:43:14 -0500, Teilhard Knight
> <teilhk@privacy.net> wrote:
> Extract it.
Thanks.
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| "Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@privacy.net> writes:
>Burning a CD and using dpkg, I finally "installed" my kernel source.
How did you install it?
>Checking the directory /usr/src, I see I have the file
>"kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2". This file contains the folder
>"kernel-source-2.6.8". Should I extract it? or leave the compressed file in
>place? I know it's a stupid question but we newbies are like that.
tar -xjf kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2
should install it. IF you wnat toactually compile a kernel. If you want to
compile a module, you aldo need the config file that was actually used to
compile your particular kernel.
>Teilhard.
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| Teilhard Knight 2005-08-06, 7:46 am |
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"Unruh" <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca> wrote in message
news:dcqln4$221$3@nntp.itservices.ubc.ca...
> "Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@privacy.net> writes:
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> How did you install it?
dpkg -i <name of the pckage>
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> tar -xjf kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2
> should install it. IF you wnat toactually compile a kernel. If you want to
> compile a module, you aldo need the config file that was actually used to
> compile your particular kernel.
Haven't compiled any kernel yet. I am trying to compile a module with the
kernel which the installation gave me, and with the kernel-source that
matches that kernel.
But please tell me more about the config file you mention. What is it, where
I find it, etc.
Teilhard.
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| cliff pankonien 2005-08-07, 5:46 pm |
| yes, extract it in that dir...
Teilhard Knight wrote:
> Burning a CD and using dpkg, I finally "installed" my kernel source.
> Checking the directory /usr/src, I see I have the file
> "kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2". This file contains the folder
> "kernel-source-2.6.8". Should I extract it? or leave the compressed file in
> place? I know it's a stupid question but we newbies are like that.
>
> Teilhard.
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