Browsing The Source Code of Linux Packages

1. Browsing Linux Source Packages
Linux Day – May 6, 2007
Motaz K. Saad
Department of Computer Science
http://motaz.saad.googlepages.com
msaad@iugaza.edu

2. Introduction
• Linux Binary Packages: *.rpm files (rpm =
redhat package manager)
– Package_name-ver.rpm
• Linux Source Packages: *.src.rpm
– Package_name-ver.src.rpm

3. Introduction (Cont.)
• Linux source are found in /usr/src directory.
• Linux kernel source located in:
/usr/src/linux-2.6.x directory.
• When installing source rpm package [src.rpm]
(rpm –i package_name.src.rpm) it will be
installed in /usr/src/packages/SOURCES
directory.