How to compile in Fedora?

[David Boles]

Teilhard Knight wrote:
> OK, what do I need to be able to compile in Fedora?. I have a little
> experience with Mandriva, and there all I need is the kernel-source, of
> the kernel, of course. Once installed I can compile things like the
> drivers for my wireless adapter, for example. But, I have searched for
> something similar in Fedora, and simply I find nothing; there is no such
> thing like a kernel-source in this distro. Not that the directory
> /usr/src is empty, it contains something similar to Linux-x.x.x in
> Mandrva, and everything I have tried looks in this directory for
> something called "Linux-xxx. Now, every time I want to compile a
> tarballl or something in Fedora, there are errors which seem to me due
> to the fact that I do not have the proper environment to compile. Can
> someone tell me what to install to be able to compile?
> 
> Teilhard.

Mandriva's package named kernel-source is named kernel-devel in Fedora

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  David