The Linux kernel source download method for CentOS

Just start to write Linux drive, write good Makefile after make, appear scripts/xxx/makefile: No that file or directory, compile stop! Error, which is caused by Linux system not installing kernel source code.

For example

The following is the introduction of the download Kernel source code method

1. View your CentOS version

Directive Cat/etc/issue

2. View your Linux kernel version

Instruction Uname-r or uname-a

3. Go to the official website to download

By the above two steps we know ourselves the CentOS version is 6.7 and the kernel version is 2.6.32-573.el6.i686

Source code of the official website: http://vault.centos.org/

Enter the official website, once again into the 6.7/, into the os/, into the source/, into the spackages/, find kernel-2.6.32-573.el6.src.rpm download on the line

can also be downloaded directly from the Linux system, for example

It's OK.

Supplemental installation

Install kernel source code

The directory/root/rpmbuild/specs and/root/rpmbuild/sources are generated.

Use the Find-name directoryname-type d command to find these two files.

Go to specs to install the source package

Install the missing packages on each of the above prompts with the Yum install command.

The Linux kernel source download method for CentOS