Synaptic finds no linux-source-* files

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Sat Feb 5 14:35:35 UTC 2005


On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 02:04:27PM +0000, rkimber at ntlworld.com wrote:
> Thanks, but much the same problem exists here too, namely that there
> is no source for the 2.6.8 kernel that was installed with ubuntu.
> 
> sudo apt-get install kernel-source

The linux-source-2.6.8.1 package is what you want; it provides
linux-source rather than kernel-source, so 'apt-get install
kernel-source' doesn't offer it.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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