General :: Difference Between Kernel Source Files (RPM And SRPM)

Aug 3, 2010

What is the difference between kernel-source.x.x.x.x.rpm and kernel.x.x.x.src.rpm?

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Ubuntu :: Difference Between Kernel 'source Code' And Kernel Itself

Jul 3, 2011

It sounds like he's making a difference between the kernel "source code" and the kernel itself(as in the downloaded file/ files) but the way he talks about both is the same.So then, if one had already "installed" the "kernel sources code," why would he need the "tarball with the newest Linux kernel?" He's already "installed" a kernel, right?

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Red Hat / Fedora :: Difference Between Source Files And Just RPM?

Nov 29, 2008

What is the difference below these files?

1)Say an application is written and is having source files.
2)A file called source rpm package
3)A rpm package

In case of (1) we need to compile using either the make or if we know using appropriate compiler with proper libs included. Can I know what's the difference between (2) and (3)?

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Debian :: Finding Kernel Headers Files Difference?

Jul 3, 2009

I usually custom compile my kernel and generate the header files with the following command:

Code:

fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=generic-ide kenrel_image kernel_headers

However, I noticed that there are some difference in the headers files that get generated with the above command as compared to the header files that are available from Debian repo. For example, the header files for 2.6.24 kernel have files like:

Code:

debian:/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686/arch/x86# ls Kconfig Kconfig.cpu Kconfig.debug kernel Makefile Makefile_32 Makefile_32.cpu Makefile_64 However, if I custom compile the above kernel from Debian sources (2.6.24), the headers files does not have the above files:

Code:

debain:/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-generic-ide/arch/x86# ls
boot ia32 Kconfig.cpu kernel lib mach-es7000 mach-visws Makefile mm pci vdso xen
crypto Kconfig Kconfig.debug lguest mach-default mach-generic mach-voyager math-emu oprofile power video

As you can see from above output, files like Makefile_32, Makefile_32.cpu are not present, if I generate kernel headers files using the make-kpkg command as mentioned in the beginning of the post. I happened to notice the above issue, while I was trying to compile a out-of-tree kernel module and the "make" command for those sources (some graphics card drm module) worked with the default header files (linux-headers-2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686) but did not work with (linux-headers-2.6.24-generic-ide) because it did not find the Makefile_32. Although I was able to fix the problem by copying the Makefile_32 from linux-headers-2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686 but I would like to know why there is a difference. This is bit of a concern because it unnecessarily breaks the out-of-tree module compilation process because of trivial reasons.

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General :: Difference Between Install From RPM Or Source

Dec 10, 2010

Can any one tell me what are the differences, pros and cons when I install something from source versus installing that thing from rpm.

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General :: Binary And Source Packages Difference

Feb 4, 2011

Very often we get to hear Binary / Source when we talk about installing packages...From what I understand "Binary" refers to a natively packaged installation by a Distro wheras installation from Source would entail fetching the files, Compiling and then building the package. When we say "source" where do these codes reside? Is it diffferent for different distros or one common source like "sourceforge.net" or similar?! I know it sounds silly but what is the origin of the source codes??

One general remedy if a package is not found is to install from source... So , source would refer to a "tar.gz" or "bz2" archive present at some location like "[URL]". In some cases , id it possible that some packageas are not available in "Source". When I tried to build a package for a particular distro , I was told that some dependencies are not un the source ...What is the meaning of this? So do all distros maintain the codes in their official repositories?

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General :: Difference Between Source And Dot Command In Linux

Jun 14, 2010

I have written a set of aliases in a file.When i tried to dot it( "Prompt> . filename" ). It said " Permission denied. "But, when I sourced it ("Prompt> source filename"). It worked perfectly.Linux manual has one entry for both the commands. Then what am I missing ?

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General :: Difference Between Open Source And Proprietary Software

Apr 19, 2011

I am looking for the opinions of some linux users as to why they prefer using open source software and what they perceive as the main differences between it and proprietary software. In particular, I am curious as to what meaning, if indeed any, users and contributors ascribe to the open source community and how they view it on a less technical level.

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General :: How To Explain Difference Between Open Source And Freeware?

Oct 26, 2010

1) A 13-years old boy wasn't impressed by KDE 4.x. Its own Window$ looks also nice and pretty and have similar functionality.

2) Open Source? How to explain a difference between open source and freeware? Do we really benefit running open source programs instead of freeware? Most of us will never read a line from a source. We want, we require easily accesible binaries.

So why a common window$ user find worthy to run Linux? What can Linux offer? Linux should be as different from window$ as it is possible.

3) Twm window manager is definitely something strange - in the way the vi editor for notepad users. Twm is for some reasons better than any other wm. I started both kde desktop and xfce desktop under twm. Both desktops can be iconyfied. It is your choice which at this moment you prefer. But you can work with both. Full democracy. No more discussions which is better.

4) When finally developers of KDE, GNOME will make these desktop almost perfect they will be obsolete. In fact they are today obsolete. It is about 20 years working in the same manner. Windows, buttons, mouse's click - I think it's enough. At least I am really bored.

5) NextGen UI. Not GUI but UI. A core of the nextgen UI will be an AI
engine. Also see p. 4, we may think about VUI - virtual environements,
you can run all your preferable GUI simultaneously. Or any other today predefined UI (eg. cli).

6) What about windows (parts of a graphical screen)? Nothing. If AI will be in the core you will need windows only for watching video and playing games.

Finall remarks: It is not a project only an idea. My intuition tells me that there is a time for changes. Time for swimming in deep water.

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General :: Difference Between Installing Software Straight From Source And From RPM

Oct 22, 2010

i want to find out the difference between installing software straight from source and from an RPM.

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General :: Tried To Install Bcmwl-kernel-source And Now Getting Kernel Panic

Jun 25, 2010

I am running an Hp Pavillion dv6000 with the Broadcom card that never seems to work for Linux. I recently talked with my friend who said he found a way to get it work.following his instructions I opened Synaptic and checked the package bmcwl-kernel-source to be installed.I went through the process of it all and it said it had install successfully. I restarted the computer and when I tried to enter my operating system I got this error "Kernel panic - not syncing : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on unknown - block(8,1)"
I have previous versions of Linux on my computer so I can still get in to those if need be but I don't know how to undo what I did or why it isn't working for that matter. Does anyone have any ideas as to why I am getting this error and how I can fix it?

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OpenSUSE Hardware :: Configure The Kernel Source Files In Order To Be Able To Install Nvidia Driver?

Jun 27, 2011

When trying to install the nvidia graphics driver I get the following error-message:

ERROR: The kernel header file '/usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h' does not exist. The most likely reason for this is that the kernel source files in '/usr/src/linux' have not been configured. How do I configure the kernel source files?

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General :: Difference Between User And Kernel Space?

Jul 12, 2010

what difference between user and kernel space.

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General :: Difference And Working Functions Between Kernel And Shell

Apr 4, 2011

I am the new child of the linux world. What is the difference and working functions between kernel and shell..

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Ubuntu :: Source Code Of The Krnel From The Kernel.org - Source Trees Organization

Apr 11, 2011

i am already a little bit familiar with linux and now i want to know better the linux OS. i have downloaded the source code of the krnel from the kernel.org and i dont understand the linux source trees organization, so can somebody do me a favor and give me a link to some internet page (or at least a book) that explains that?? i have searched in the internet with the tag:::linux source trees organization and i have not found nothing interesting

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General :: Difference Between 'bin' And 'netinstall' ISO Files

Aug 22, 2011

What is the difference between "bin" and "netinstall" ISO files for Linux?I need a full OS, not just a Live CD. On the mirrors there are two kind of files.Which one is the full OS?

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General :: Difference Between The MOUNTING Files?

Nov 7, 2009

I'm new to linux,so i'm confused with MOUNTING files. give differences and unique functions of the FSTAB, MTAB, /PROC/MTAB files.

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General :: Difference Between Two Text Files To Third One

Jul 14, 2010

I want the difference of two text files(a.txt & b.txt) into a third text file(c.txt). i.e. New or Differert rows of a.txt compared to b.txt

a.txt>
10128|10153|999999
10343|10153|000
10345|10153|3846
10351|10153|3846

b.txt>
10128|10153|999999
10343|10153|3853
10345|10153|3853
10349|10153|3853

c.txt should be like>
10343|10153|000
10351|10153|3846

I tried comm,but man says that the files have to be sorted in order to use comm. I dont want to sort the files.

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General :: Can't Install Kernel Source / Why Is So?

Nov 12, 2010

During installation of one of driver i needed to

Remove any earlier version drivers using
make clean -r command.

Where i m getting following error code...

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Software :: Difference Between Source Versus SRC - RPM

Mar 11, 2010

It is my understanding that building from source is slightly faster since the created binary will be specific to the current kernel/system. This seems to have the drawback of when the kernel is upgraded the source compiled package will no longer work...but this is not always the case. So what kernel upgrades will cause a package from source not to function? Side bar to that, I have a package that is only available in source format that I need to install on numerous hosts. It seems that the upfront work of creating my own RPM for this package is worth it to make managing the package more efficient, and I think I have two choices: src-rpm and standard binary rpm. If I build a src-rpm and I distribute that for installation will a kernel upgrade 'break' the package since it is actually being compiled for a specific kernel at the time of install? So far I have found a lot of information, and have spent time reading the rpm docs, etc, but I don't feel like I have a good grasp of what the specific portability differences are between source, src-rpm, and rpm.

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Software :: Difference Between Source And Dot Command

Aug 11, 2010

What is different? When I execute the "man source", and "man ." are same. Is it same? or not? If it is different, what is it?

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General :: Find The Difference Between Two Files In Different Servers?

Mar 18, 2010

I want to find the difference between two files in different servers , which have trust enabled to ssh without password.

Am using the following command , which shows no output. But i am able to see some difference there in the files manually.

Code:
serv1$diff .profile `ssh serv2 ls .profile`

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General :: Download - Re-Downloading (Kernel) Source?

Oct 21, 2010

yesterday i downloaded source of my virtual linux kernel and tried to compile it. It compiled indeed but could not boot from the new kernel. Then today i decided to re-downloading after removing the folder where source files are located but it said "linux source is already the newest version"

I use the command below: sudo apt-get install linux-source What should i do to be able to re-download the source.

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General :: Installing A New Kernel From Source On RHEL 5

Aug 2, 2011

how to upgrade or install a updated kernel version (3.0).I am using RHEL 5 with kernel 2.6.18-8.I am trying to upgrade through source downloaded at [URL.Also will it be a good practice to upgrade the existing kernel?

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General :: Kernel Source Cannot Install Using Rpmbuild

Apr 19, 2010

i downloaded kernel source rpm. i.e kernel-2.6.18-53.el5.src.rpm for my kernel 2.6.18-53.el5. i installed succeffully above src.rpm using command .. rpmbuild --rebuild kernel-2.6.18-53.el5.src.rpm it created a directory in /usr/src/redhat

then i manually deleted the redhat directory just because i want to rebuild the kernel source again.so i i removed the redhat directory but now i tried to excute above rpmbuild command again but it is failed. saying: error:cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/sources error:kernel-2.6.18-53.el5.src.rpm cannot be installed

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General :: Where Source Code Of Kernel Located

Feb 6, 2011

Want to know where the source code of Linux is located

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General :: Finding The Kernel Source Code?

Apr 14, 2011

where can i find linux kernel source code?

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General :: Package Versioning And Difference Of MD5Sum On Files?

Jun 20, 2011

I noticed something a little odd I'm hoping someone can enlighten me on. I noticed in a couple of cases that a package has the proper version, but differs in two regards.

1. The package ends up with a .el4 on the end of the version for Red Hat 4.

2. The actual MD5Sum of the files the package provides differ.

An example below:

Code:

[root@RH4ES32-MCE bin]# for i in `rpm -ql GConf2`;do md5sum $i;done;
md5sum: /etc/gconf/2: Is a directory
9f90335546f7c57ae6fb552cc2b919c5 /etc/gconf/2/path
md5sum: /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults: Is a directory

[code].....

So my package changed slightly to now show .el4 versus just 2-2.8.1-1 I've indicated in the first output above that the first couple of lines differ. I stopped my comparison at that point as they truly are different.

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Red Hat :: Difference Between 'kernel Sources' & 'kernel-devel'

Jan 7, 2010

I have installed CentOS 5.4 & am trying to install VirtualBox on it. To install VirtualBox I run the command:

yum localinstall path/Virtualbox.rpm

It runs through the dependency check & says everything is fine. It installs the rpm & then says that compiling of the kernel module failed & that VirtualBox will not start until this is fixed, & that the most like cause is that the kernel sources are not installed.

I have installed the kernel-devel package & have the kernel source tree located at /usr/src/kernel/2.6....

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General :: Kernel Panic Error On Source Installation

Aug 31, 2010

Kernel Panic.
I am using
"HP Pavilion dvb 111x"
"AMD Turion X2"
"ATI RADEON Graphic Card"
And "RHEL5"

I am not register user of Redhat. I am trying to switch kernel form linux-2.6.18.X To linux-2.6.27.53. I had download source of kernel and install it as per README file. During installation everything was fair but as I am trying to boot from my new kernel it shows me "Kernel Panic" error. It Displays

" ide_generic :I/O resorce 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free.
ide_generic :I/O resorce 0x170-0x177 not free.
Redhat nash version 5.1.19.6 starting.
mount : Could not find filesystem. '/dev/root'
setuproot : mounting /dev failed : no such file or directory
setuproot : mounting /proc failed : no such file or directory
setuproot : mounting /sys failed : no such file or directory
switchroot : mount failed : no such file or directory

Kernel Panic not Synching:
attempt to kill init! "

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