Captive-NTFS on (K)Ubuntu

Here are the steps that I found, that finally resulted in a successful install of captive-ntfs on (k)ubuntu:

Install your linux headers (in my case linux-headers-2.6.15-17-686)

sudo aptitude install linux-headers-2.6.15-17-686

Install lufs-utils & lufs-source:

sudo aptitude install lufs-utils lufs-source

Correct the lufs module:

sudo vi /usr/share/lufs/2.6/inode.c

//change
kill_proc_info(SIGUSR1, &info, GET_INFO(sb)->server_pid);
//to
kill_proc(SIGUSR1, &info, GET_INFO(sb)->server_pid);

Execute lufs prepmod:

sudo  /usr/share/lufs/prepmod

Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://www.kruyt.org/debian /

Install captive-ntfs

sudo aptitude install captive-static

I found that the search initiated by the package configuration to be quite time consuming, so I kept saying no until it allowed the app to download the files from Microsoft. Later on I may copy the files I actually have on my Window partition, but for now that’s good enough.

Modified lines in fstab:

— Add this, as I’m still working out how I want to do permissions

I just hope this helps people out, because I did find that trying to find a decent how-to beyond never ending forum posts to be quite difficult. The end result you see here is actually information collected from multiple posts (some not related to debian/(k)ubuntu).