what package contains the raw vmlinux image?

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 1 08:17:24 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Tom H wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Robert P. J. Day
>> <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>> >
>> > i've been poking around, trying to find the package that will
>> > install the raw, vmlinux kernel image that corresponds to the running
>> > kernel and i'm having no luck. i've tried several variations on the
>> > linux-image-* packages but maybe i've just missed it.
>>
>> Do you mean
>> aptitude search linux-image-2.6.3
>
>  that's what i mean but i have in fact installed the
> linux-image-2.6.32-22-generic package and it doesn't contain the
> vmlinux file.
>
>  someone else pointed me at the page
> http://ddebs.ubuntu.com/pool/main/l/linux/ where i can see
> linux-image-debug packages but that page looks annoyingly unmaintained
> as there is no package corresponding to the current kernel of
> 2.6.32-22.
>
>  at this point, i am assuming that there is no official package that
> will give me a vmlinux file corresponding to the running kernel.
> frankly, that sucks.

How would it be installed if it were not included?!

Check
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux/
or
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/
and download
linux-image-2.6.32-22-generic_2.6.32-22.36_i386.deb
or
linux-image-2.6.32-22-386_2.6.32-22.36_i386.deb




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