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In CentOS I can do yum install kernel-doc and then read /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.

How would I do the equivalent in Ubuntu? Professor Google told me it was in the source code so I did apt install linux-source but I can't find proc.txt anywhere.

I'm guessing there's a different way of doing it in Ubuntu.

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The package name is linux-doc, after you apt install linux-doc look in /usr/share/doc/linux-doc.

In general anything that would be called "kernel" in RH/CentOS land will be called "linux" in Ubuntu since Ubuntu is based on Debian which has versions with other kernels like GNU Hurd and BSD.

Jorge Castro
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    Calling your kernel packages `kernel` makes about as much sense as calling your Firefox packages `web-browser`... – fkraiem Oct 24 '16 at 03:15
  • Note that many of the files are left compressed, so `proc.txt` is `/usr/share/doc/linux-doc/filesystems/proc.txt.gz`. Less will decompress it on the fly. – Tor Klingberg Mar 14 '17 at 11:14