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Where is vmlinux on my Ubuntu installation?

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Mar 15, 202646190 views
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Problem

I'm trying to work with starting up oprofile, and I'm running into a problem at this step: Ubuntu has no package called vmlinux, and when I do a , I get a lot of files: Which one of these is the one I'm looking for?

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opcontrol --vmlinux=/path/to/vmlinux

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Fix for: Where is vmlinux on my Ubuntu installation?

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The easiest(and non-hacky) way to obtain under Ubuntu is to add ddebs repository: and install kernel debug symbols: then can be found here:

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