You need to use the apt-get command to install Linux kernel source code. Open the terminal and type the following commands to install Ubuntu Linux source code:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install linux-source Sample outputs:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
linux-source-2.6.32
Suggested packages:
libncurses-dev ncurses-dev kernel-package libqt3-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-source linux-source-2.6.32
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 65.9MB of archives.
After this operation, 66.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
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Gr8! Thanks..
Thank you, after a few hours of frustration, these instruction did the trick.
s/sudp/sudo/
Thanks for the heads up!