Incomplete Distro???

Alan McDonald alan at meta.com.au
Mon Feb 7 06:48:38 UTC 2005


> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:11:55PM +1100, Alan McDonald wrote:
> > But I have to ask, why so many dependent rpms are missing from
> the fedora
> > distro Cds. I wanted to use gcc, so I start trying to install
> and like other
> > things requiring dependent libs, gcc requires, in this instance,
> > kernel-headers which is not on the CDs.
>
>
>   $ rpm -q --whatprovides kernel-headers
>   glibc-kernheaders-2.4-9.1.87
>
> It might have been more helpful to title your post "can't find
> kernel-headers package" -- your current one seems a bit over-worried. :)
>
> --
> Matthew Miller            mattdm at mattdm.org

well now I might be even more worried because the anser to whatprovides on
my Fedora Core 2 is not glibc-kernheaders but kernel-headers-2.4-9.34 and
that file is not present on my distro..
What else don't I undertand
thanks
Alan





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