FC5: touble building nvidia-kmod from livna
Peter Reed
mrdeadworry at gmail.com
Sun Sep 10 01:32:25 UTC 2006
Dean S. Messing wrote:
> I'm having the devil of a time building (compiling) the nvidia-kmod
> rpm for the kernel I'm running. (Why does this have to be so hard!!!)
>
> Here's what I've done.
>
> I downloaded
>
> nvidia-kmod-1.0.8774-1.2.6.17_1.2174_FC5.src.rpm
>
> from livna. They don't have the module .rpm for the
> 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp which I'm running right now so I figured I'd
> "just" build the .rpm.
>
> I then "installed" the .src.rpm with `rpm -i'.
>
> Then I edited the .spec file, changing
>
> %{!?kversion: %define kversion 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5}
>
>
> to
>
> %{!?kversion: %define kversion 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5}
>
> at the beginning of the file.
>
> I then did
>
> rpmbuild -bb --target i686 nvidia-kmod.spec
>
> and get the following error messages:
>
> Building target platforms: i686
> Building for target i686
> error: Failed build dependencies:
> kernel-devel-i686 = 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 is needed by nvidia-kmod-1.0.8774-1.2.6.15_1.2054_FC5.i686
> kernel-xen0-devel-i686 = 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 is needed by nvidia-kmod-1.0.8774-1.2.6.15_1.2054_FC5.i686
> kernel-kdump-devel-i686 = 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 is needed by nvidia-kmod-1.0.8774-1.2.6.15_1.2054_FC5.i686
>
>
> What I do have installed is:
>
> # `rpm -qa | fgrep kern'
>
> kernel-smp-devel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5
> kernel-smp-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5
> glibc-kernheaders-3.0-5.2
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Dean
>
You need to install the kernel developer files for your kernel.
yum install kernel-devel 2.6.15.2054_FC5
Peter
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