Where is the kernel source package for FC5 GA?
Neil Cherry
ncherry at comcast.net
Wed Mar 29 00:25:35 UTC 2006
Lamont R. Peterson wrote:
> 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.
>
Ah, so that's the difference. That was driving me totally nuts. I
couldn't figure out why I couldn't compile the kernel with the
devel package but I'm very successful (when I don't remove too
much) with the kernel sources.
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