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MegaRAID SAS Device Driver Installation User Guide 
June 2014
Ubuntu Linux Driver Installation
Installing the Driver in a New Ubuntu Linux LTS OS
Chapter 5: Ubuntu Linux Driver Installation
This chapter describes how to install the device driver in new Ubuntu Linux systems, and how to update the driver on
existing operating system OSs.
Refer to the release notes that accompanied the driver for information on an existing Ubuntu Linux system.
NOTE Other supported Ubuntu OS versions follow the same driver
installation process described for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS in the
following section.
NOTE The Ubuntu OS does not support driver update diskettes.
5.1 Installing the Driver in a New Ubuntu Linux LTS OS
You can install the device driver in a new Ubuntu Linux LTS system from the .deb package, which contains the
executables, configuration files, libraries, and documentation in a Debian® archive file.
Ubuntu uses the Debian file format for OS components, and LSI provides the MegaRAID driver in this file format.
Perform the procedure in this section if the Ubuntu Linux OS boots from a device that is not managed by a MegaRAID
controller, but in which the MegaRAID controller is or will be present on the system and used for managing
secondary storage.
Assuming that you already have the .deb package, perform the following steps to install the driver.
1. If you are running the OS as root, perform the following steps; otherwise, go to step 2 .
a. Make sure that you are running the OS as root. To do so, if you are logged in as a standard user, type the
following command and press Enter:
sudo su
You are prompted for the password.
b. Provide the password and press Enter.
c. In the directory where the package is located, type the following command and press Enter:
dpkg -i Package.deb
This action installs the driver on the Ubuntu OS.
2. Perform the following steps if you are not running the OS as root:
a. In the directory where the package is located, type the following command and press Enter:
sudo dpkg -i Package.deb
You are prompted for the password.
b. Provide the password and press Enter.
This action installs the driver on the Ubuntu OS.