Fedora 5 packages
I installed a very basic install of Fedora 5 and I wanted to recompile the kernel. I discovered that I didnt install alot of the source files along with the dependencies. I tried to use the add/remove software of Fedora and from my experiences it is a piece of #%@%%. Without having to reinstall all of the dependencies and sources from scratch using .RPMs or .tar is there any easier way that comes with the GUI?
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The easiest way is to open a terminal window, become root:
su - root and issue the command: yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools" |
what about the kernel sources. Is there a YUM option for that?
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If you don't actually need the source (you just want to build a kernel module) you can use:
yum -y install kernel-devel If you need the source to build the full kernel you can use rpm directly on the web file. For example: Code:
rpm -ivh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/source/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.src.rpm |
I actually did that and when trying to build the kernel using make menuconfig or xconfig I get several errors. I know that part of the reason is I do not have the proper dependencies. I will post the errors.
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If you are unable to use the kernel-devel tools after a fresh install of FC5 , then it seems to be that you may be installing FC5 using the CD ISOs that has a known bug in them in which the i386 CDs are incomplete and are missing 22 packages.
The 5 install CDs contain 2185 packages and the DVD i386 version contains 2207 packages. Most of the missing packages are related to the kernel-devel packages. The only workaround is to do a online package update using one of the yum Gui applications like yumex to install the kernel-devel packages. Here is the bugzilla report about the i386 ISO CDs with the missing packages. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=186202 |
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