[ltp] Ubuntu Linux

[Chris McDonough]

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 19:44 -0400, ash@kgbspy.org wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> 
> >> You don't generally need a package for it.  Just grab the tar.{bz2,gz}
> >> from kernel.org.  Might want to snag /proc/config.gz while you're at it.
> >
> > Well, since it is debian based, you are probably better off building the
> > kernel the debian way, which means using kernel-package. You can still
> > use the original sources, but better results might come using your
> > distro's, they probably patched it.
> 
> Unfortunately it's not the kernel that I want to build, but a third party 
> app that needs the source to compile against. I have the plain source from 
> kernel.org, but presumably it needs source that has actually been used to 
> compile a kernel... at least that's how it seems.
> 
> > You should be able to add regular debian repositories to your apt
> > sources and get kernel-package and kernel sources from there.
> 
> Might give that a try, cheers :)

I don't know if you know this or not (or have already tried it) but you
can get the Ubuntu kernel headers by installing the
"linux-headers-2.6.8.1-3" (at least that's the latest one, I think;
there are several other variations for different architectures too, do
an apt-cache search for these).

- C