Where is the kernel source package for FC5 GA?
Lamont R. Peterson
lamont at gurulabs.com
Wed Mar 29 00:09:34 UTC 2006
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 04:27pm, Neil Cherry wrote:
> Allyn, Mark A wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > I am trying to build kernel modules on a standard install
> > of Fedora Core 5 GA. I did select the development block
> > of packages.
> >
> > However there do not seem to be any kernel sources available
> > to build kernel modules.
> >
> > I tried yum and did a yum look for kernel-source and it came
> > up with nothing.
> >
> > Where do I get enough of the kernel source to do compiles
> > of kernel driver modules?
>
> I think it's called kernel-devel.xxxx Try:
>
> yum search kernel-devel
Yup. It is kernel-devel.
If you want to build modules (i.e. external modules) for Red Hat distros,
install kernel-devel. If you want to build patched, custom kernels, get the
SRPM.
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Lamont R. Peterson <lamont at gurulabs.com>
Senior Instructor
Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ]
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