Comments on: Redhat enterprise Linux / CentOS installing kernel source code

By: anybody

anybody — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:39:25 +0000

Just look at the src.rpm for the source code. You can extract it via command

rpm2cpio kernel-bla-bla-bla.src.rpm | cpio -idvm

and then a simple

ls *.tar.{bz2|gz}

will take you to the source :)

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:35:04 +0000

I think you have a typo in your example.

# yum install kernel-devel Kernel-headers

has a capital “K” in Kernel-headers, but that didn’t work for me. I changed it to a lowercase “k” and it worked just fine.

By: Noufal

Noufal — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:14:30 +0000

I want source code of LinuxKernel and Redhat linux

By: Shraddha

Shraddha — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:53:25 +0000

hi,
i want the source code of Linux.
i don’t know exact location for it.
could i know about this?
thank you.

By: John

John — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:07:47 +0000

Upon further examination, the *.src.rpm does have the source in a tarball within it. You’re expected to build the source tree with the rpmbuild command. A command reference would be http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_85_5109.shtm

Keep in mind that you will need the unifdef package which is not installed by default. You’ll find it on the third installation CD.

By: John

John — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:44:17 +0000

The various source rpm’s referenced in the article such as kernel-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.src.rpm do not contain the source but rather patches to the source…