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I am searching for a command to display the source code of kernel functions (e.g blk_make_request) in my monitor instead of looking for them in the google. Especially for redhat and ubuntu systems.

You need to get hold of the Linux source code first, which is not available on Ubuntu by default.
You could either enable Ubuntu's source repositories, but it's easier to get the source from Github.
If you don't have git:
sudo apt-get install git
Then to get Linux:
git clone git#github.com:torvalds/linux.git # This will take a long time, it's about 1.1 GB
cd linux
git grep blk_make_request
This will show you where to look.

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Can't execute .run file in Ubuntu container

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I'm trying to install the Microchip XC8 compiler on a Ubuntu container to make a pipeline for building the project with Gitlab CI. But there's no response after I run the "xc8-v1.45-full-install-linux-installer.run" file.
Here is the environment I have:
Official Ubuntu 18.04 LTS image on a Docker container
Docker version 19.03.13
Windows 10 as Docker host
Microchip XC8 v1.45 compiler
And the commands I used for downloading and installing are as following:
# Download XC8 from the Microchip official site
wget http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/xc8-v1.45-full-install-linux-installer.run
# Change the access permission
chmod +x xc8-v1.45-full-install-linux-installer.run
# Execute the ".run" file
./xc8-v1.45-full-install-linux-installer.run
After I did them all, there's no response. Obviously, something went wrong.
I have tried the installation process above on a native Ubuntu computer, and it just works fine.
Is there any prerequisite I missed? Or there have some ways for me to achieve the same purpose?
Thanks!
I was having this problem on 64 bit Ubuntu 20.04 as well.
I had several problems, could not change execution bit because it was on an NTFS partition and the executable required 32 bit libraries to run.
First I had to move the file from an NTFS partition so that I could set the file to executable. In my case I moved it to my downloads directory and then in that folder executed:
sudo chmod +x ./xc8-v1.42-full-install-linux-installer.run
It still would not run, so I checked its type by executing:
file ./xc8-v1.42-full-install-linux-installer.run
which resulted in the response:
./xc8-v1.42-full-install-linux-installer.run: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, no section header
Eventually the main solutions was to install 32 bit libraries:
sudo apt-get install lib32z1
Finally I could install install that 32 bit library. Then running this worked:
sudo ./xc8-v1.42-full-install-linux-installer.run
Using existing MPLAB Docker repo
This GitLab.com project exists:
MPLAB X IDE/IPE podman/docker container
This may not help with your .run file problem, but maybe switching to an existing docker container might make it easier for you.
They also work with .run files, so you may find your solution over there as well.
Features:
Has a general-purpose installation of MPLAB X and the toolchain.
X11 forwarding for working in the IDE is supported.
Can use USB from inside the container.
Requires some setup. See readme for installation instructions.
MIT License
Need to test this still myself, but just wanted to share here, might just as well.
Posted in the microchip forums by the creator:
Dockerfile for MPLAB X IDE/IPE and toolchains

/lib/modules/*/build point to non existing files

I have a CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core).
I want to build some kernel code for currently running kernel.
My uname -r says 3.10.0-327.10.1.el7.x86_64, but ls -l /usr/src/kernels/
shows only 3.10.0-327.13.1.el7.x86_64. Why do I have sources of not current kernel on my filesystem(vanilla fresh provisioned Digitalocean box)?
Why does yum install kernel-devel does not install headers for currently running kernel?
uname is a system call to the kernel to get information. It's telling you what's running on that machine. What's physically present on the hard drive can be anything that anyone has installed. Someone may have downloaded the wrong package or you may have multiple kernels installed etc. But, the one that's running is what uname is telling you.

How to install gcc onto a RedHat Enterprise 5 virtual machine?

I am trying to install gcc onto a linux RedHat Enterprise 5 virtual machine, and I have tried using a tar.gz package and also a rpm, and both methods give errors. The tar.gz says there is no c compiler found, and the rpm has dependencies that it can not find. Yum is available on this machine, however, there are no repositories found and I am still unsure of how to install the necessary repositories to get gcc installed. The end goal for installing gcc is to be able to install rsync, tcl, and the expect package for shell scripts. Any advice?
Your .tar.gz probably didn't work because it was the raw source code for GCC. The source for the compiler requires a compiler to build it — the classic chicken & egg problem. To get around this, you'd need to get a precompiled compiler for your system's architecture. GCC is not offered in a precompiled form by the FSF, as far as I know. If you're ever interested in actually trying to build a Linux system from the ground up like that, you might find Linux From Scratch interesting.
You'll probably not even need GCC to get rsync, tcl, etc. There are almost certainly pre-built packages available from yum repos for those tools. As #PeteyT said, RHEL uses a subscription to allow you to access packages using yum. You can learn more from the Red Hat Subscription Management Guide.
If you don't have a Red Hat subscription, you might be interested in CentOS, Scientific Linux and Fedora. As I understand it, CentOS and Scientific Linux are meant to be almost identical to RHEL. On the other hand, Fedora is a separate project owned by Red Hat (according to Wikipedia) which is an OS in its own right, and sometimes serves as a feeder to Red Hat products.
Once you have repos available, either via subscription or switching OSs, you should be able to simply run yum install rsync tcl expect to install rsync, tcl, and expect.
You might look at yum's docs for more about the various commands you can use with yum, and Red Hat's docs for more on package management in RHEL.

Emulating Linux binaries under Mac OS X

How do I run Linux binaries under Mac OS X?
Googling around I found a couple of emulators but none for running Linux binaries on a Mac. There are quite a few posts about running Mac OS X on Linux and that kind of stuff - but that's the opposite of what I want to do.
Update:
Thanks for all the answers! I am fully aware of MacPorts and Fink or any of the other things; and no, I do not want any of these utilities, and I do not want any of the package managers, I prefer to compile things myself. I also have Parallels and could set up virtual machines and all that jazz...
The only thing I want to do is to find a way to run a binary that I do not have the source code for and has been compiled for Linux, but I do not want to run it under Linux but under Mac OS X. Therefore my question about emulators.
Well there is a project introducing something like Linux's binfmt_misc to OS X so now what you need is an ELF loader, a dynamic linker that can load both Mach-O and ELF, and some mechanism to translate Linux calls to OS X ones.
Just for inspiration, you can implement the dynamic linker in the fashion that it ignores filename extension - both libfoo.so.1 (as an Linux ELF) and libfoo.1.dylib (as an Mach-O) can be loaded so that OS X versions of system libraries can be reused so that you do not need to write a "hosted on OS X" libc.so and syscalls can be handled by an kext that translates Linux calls to OS X ones in kernel.
Or, in an more elegant way, implement a stripped down Linux kernel as a kext that makes the OS X kernel a dual-purpose. However that will require you to use two sets of libraries. (Binaries do not clash so it is largely okay)
Set up a virtual machine (I personally use VMWare Fusion) and then install whatever distro of Linux you desire on the virtual machine.
Or, if you have the source to the Linux program, chances are you can recompile it on a Mac and run it natively. If you install Fink or MacPorts, you can install a lot of open source programs without much trouble.
I recently found Noah, which you can use to run Linux binaries on macOS. You can install Noah via homebrew (brew install linux-noah/noah/noah). Then you should be able to do this:
noah linux_binary
In my experience the behavior of the binary matches what I see on my Ubuntu machine.
You might have some luck with running Linux executables under Mac OS X using Qemu's User Space Emulator
If you decide to go the virtualization route, consider also VirtualBox.
Also, if you only need UNIX like command line tools, there is the MacPorts project. This is basically how I set up git on my mac: after having installed MacPorts you just have to run the sudo port install git command to install git on your system.
noah does not allow the binaries to execute properly for me. Use Docker Desktop for Mac.
Just do:
docker pull centos:latest # 73MB CentOS docker image
Make a folder for what is needed to run your binary, and in your Dockerfile:
FROM centos
COPY your_binary /bin/
ENTRYPOINT ["your_binary"]
and you can build it with
docker build -t image_name
then execute with
docker run image_name as if it were the binary itself. Worked for me. Hope it helps someone else. And if you need specific outputs or to store files somewhere you can mount volumes onto the docker with -v, for example:
docker run -v path_to_my_stuff:/docker_stuff image_name,
though adding a WORKDIR /docker_stuff line to the Dockerfile before ENTRYPOINT is probably best.
If you change ENTRYPOINT to
ENTRYPOINT ["bash", "-c"]
and add
CMD ["your_binary"]
underneath it, you can actually pass the command into the image like
docker run -v path_on_local:/in_container_path image_name "your_binary some_parameters -optionrequiringzerowhitespacebeforeinputvalue"

How can I install Git to my server which does not have apt-get?

My host is Bluehost. My server is on Linux.
I have tried to follow the tutorial.
You can quite easily compile it from source, with the usual ./configure && make && sudo make install commands.
See "How to install git". Specifically the Mac OS X section (which applies to Linux also)
If the machine doesn't have apt-get, then chances are it isn't a Debian or Ubuntu machine, which means that using a tutorial designed for Debian or Ubuntu is unlikely to get you very far.
Either use the packaged releases for whatever Linux distribution you are running, or build from source.
Get the source from http://git.or.cz/
Maybe you have the same problem I have that I cannot have an outgoing connection but I can have an incoming connection, that´s why I cannot use apt-get. What I do to move files is just use WinSCP and move the files there and after do whatever I want with them.

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