Difference between revisions of "Install kernel from RPM on Debian 6.0"

Revision as of 10:51, 10 November 2011

You can use latest RHEL6-based kernel builds on your Debian or Ubuntu machine. Here's how.

1. Get the latest kernel from either Download/kernel/rhel6-testing or Download/kernel/rhel6. You need vzkernel and vzkernel-devel packages only, with the -devel being optional.

2. Install fakeroot and alien:

apt-get install alien fakeroot

3. Convert these two rpms to debs using alien. This is

fakeroot alien --to-deb --scripts --keep-version vzkernel-*.rpm

4. Install debs as usual. Reboot. Enjoy.

dpkg -i vzkernel*.deb

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-=install=
+You can use latest RHEL6-based kernel builds on your Debian or Ubuntu machine. Here's how.
+== Installation ==
+. Get the latest kernel from either [[Download/kernel/rhel6-testing]] or [[Download/kernel/rhel6]]. You need <code>vzkernel</code> and <code>vzkernel-devel</code> packages only, with the <code>-devel</code> being optional.
+. Install fakeroot and alien:
   apt-get install alien fakeroot
- fakeroot alien -k kernel-2.6.27-chistyakov.1.x86_64.rpm
- sudo dpkg -i kernel_2.6.27-chistyakov.1_amd64.deb
- sudo update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.27-chistyakov.1
- sudo update-grub
-=uninstall=
+. Convert these two rpms to debs using alien. This is
-  sudo dpkg -r kernel
+  fakeroot alien --to-deb --scripts --keep-version vzkernel-*.rpm
- sudo rm -fr /lib/modules/2.6.27-chistyakov.1
- sudo update-initramfs -d -k 2.6.27-chistyakov.1
+. Install debs as usual. Reboot. Enjoy.
-  sudo update-grub
+  dpkg -i vzkernel*.deb
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