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<sect2>
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-<title>Installation of the kernel headers</title>
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+<title>Installation of the kernel headers and man pages</title>
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<para>We won't be compiling a new kernel yet -- we'll do that when we have
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finished the installation of all the packages. But as some packages need the
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kernel header files, we're going to unpack the kernel archive now, set it up,
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and copy the header files to where they will be found by these packages.</para>
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-<para>The kernel headers are copied by running the following commands:</para>
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+<para>It is important to note that the files in the kernel source directory
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+are not owned by root. Whenever you unpack a package as user root (like we
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+do here inside chroot), the files end up having the user and group ID's of
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+whatever they were on the packager's computer. This is usually not a
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+problem for any other package you install because you remove the source
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+tree after the installation. But the Linux kernel source tree is often kept
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+around for a long time, so there's a chance whatever userid was used will
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+be assigned to somebody on your machine, and that person would get write
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+access to the kernel source.</para>
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+
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+<para>In light of this, you might want to run <userinput>chown
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+0.0</userinput> on the linux-&kernel-version; directory to ensure all files
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+are owned by user <emphasis>root</emphasis>.</para>
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+
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+<para>The kernel headers and man pages are installed by running the following
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+commands:</para>
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<para><screen><userinput>ln -s /static/bin/pwd /bin/pwd &&
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make mrproper &&
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Gerard Beekmans