B&B Electronics 3PCIOU4 - Manual - Manual (Page 27)

Installing Linux Driver Software
Document Number 3PCI-0712m Chapter 5 21
Ubuntu 10.04 Server (32-bit and 64-bit)
1. Determine which version of GCC built the current Linux kernel.
username@computer$ cat /proc/version ↲
Linux version 2.6.32-21-server (buildd@yellow) (gcc version 4.4.3
(Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) ) #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 09:17:34 UTC 2010
The current Linux kernel was built using GCC v4.4.3.
2. Install the version of GCC that built the current Linux kernel.
username@computer$ sudo apt-get update ↲
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Fetched 12.0MB in 50s (237kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
username@computer$ sudo apt-get install gcc-4.4 gcc ↲
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
binutils gcc-4.4 libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dev libgomp1 linux-
libc-dev manpages-dev
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After this operation, 35.3MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y ↲
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Setting up binutils (2.20.1-3ubuntu7) ...
Setting up libgomp1 (4.4.3-4ubuntu5) ...
Setting up gcc-4.4 (4.4.3-4ubuntu5) ...
Setting up gcc (4:$.4.3-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libcdev-bin (2.11.1-0ubuntu7.5) ...
Setting up linux-libc-dev (2.6.32-25.45) ...
Setting up libc6-dev (2.11.1-0ubuntu7.5) ...
3. Get the version of the Linux kernel.
username@computer$ uname -r ↲
2.6.32-21-server
4. Install the Linux kernel headers for the current Linux kernel. In the command below, the part
after “linux-headers-” should match the output of the command above.