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I am using Ubuntu 11.10. When I type 'uname -r' in the terminal, I get:

3.0.0-15-generic

I want to download the kernel source for the particular kernel version I am running. When I look on kernel.org, and then look inside kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ I can only find source tarballs by the name of linux-3.0.x.tar.gz. My 'uname -r' has an extra '0' in it.

Am I looking in the wrong place? Is my kernel not a mainline one?

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Try apt-get --download-only source linux-image-3.0.0-15-generic

Ubuntu kernels are base on mainline ones, but aren't numbered the same way.

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The Ubuntu kernels are modified from the mainline source, to include additional drivers and fixes. The code can be obtained in one of two ways. Either using apt-get source linux-image-<VERSION> (do remember to substitute in the version you require), or from the Ubuntu Kernel Team git repositories.

For more details see our wiki at the URL below:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/SourceCode
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