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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