I'm trying to follow a guide to use ndiswrapper to install wireless drivers for my Fedora core 6 distro, but it says I require unifdef to be installed. The easiest way is apparently to use the yum command, but because I cannot access the internet, this doesn't work.

I downloaded unifdef, untarred it and used the rpm command. I changed into the directory, and did make, then make install. Make worked fine, but make install says something about install not being a target for make. I also tried ./configure, but no configure file was there.

I went back to installing ndiswrapper, and it still says it's missing unifdef. I'm a total newbie to Linux, so I figure I must not have installed it right. What do I do?


Thanks for your help!

Are you using 32bit or 64bit?
The file is available on your Fedora CD's or DVD.
Manually install it with 'rpm -ivh'

64-bit. Thanks very much, I pulled the RPM from the install DVD and it worked great. I don't know what I was doing wrong before, probably not compiling the source code I downloaded properly.

Glad it worked. Generally speaking, if you know an RPM is available that does what you need, go with that route. Compiling with source *AND* trying to satisfy RPM dependancies can cause problems.

Everything available through YUM is an RPM.