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?

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?

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:

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.

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