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Hello, I just installed Arch Linux.
I need a way to get the source code for the Arch Linux default kernel. I'm trying to install the 100.14.09 nvidia drivers using the script from the nVidia site, because I've been having problems on other distributions with the latest drivers, and these ones are supposed to work as a workaround. To do so, however, I need the Kernel Source to compile a kernel interface for the nvidia drivers. On other distributions, there's usually a package like Kernel-devel that gets you that kind of thing. Does this exist for Arch Linux?
I can compile my own kernel if need be, but I'd rather avoid it.
Alternatively, is there a way to use pacman to install older versions of drivers?
Thanks in advance.
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Nevermind... I just found my answer in a FAQ,
For those who are interested:
Q: Where can I get the kernel source? Is there an Arch Package?
A: Arch uses the vanilla kernel source. That means that you can go to http://kernel.org and download the full kernel source (and place it in /usr/src/linux or a directory that's symlinked there). There is no package, because the developers feel there's no need to add another mirror of the kernel source. The official homepage has 10x more bandwidth than we do. ;-)
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you could just install the kernel-headers package which is a stripped down version of the kernel source to use to build your modules.
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