Step 1 : Download the Source Code

  • In this program, you are going to learn

  • How to ?

  • Make sure current dir is $HOME

$ cd $HOME
  • Open the terminal and use the wget command to download the Linux kernel source code:

$ wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/linux-6.0.7.tar.xz
  • The output shows the “saved” message when the download completes as shown below:

--2024-05-20 11:49:01--  https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/linux-6.0.7.tar.xz
Resolving cdn.kernel.org (cdn.kernel.org)...
151.101.153.176
Connecting to cdn.kernel.org (cdn.kernel.org)|151.101.153.176|:443... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 133884956 (128M) [application/x-xz]
Saving to: "linux-6.0.7.tar.xz"

linux-6.0.7.tar.xz                            100%[================================================================================================>] 127.68M  18.2MB/s    in 8.5s

2024-05-20 12:19:31 (15.0 MB/s) - "linux-6.0.7.tar.xz" saved [133884956/133884956]