Hello,

I'm in the Newbie forum for a good reason. I have a fresh install of Fedora 2.4.22

I need to install the kernel sources for 2.4.22. Unfortunately, I was unable install the kernel sources. I checked the /usr/src/redhat and there were some empty directories in it and figured I did not have the source.

I have the three disks and the MD5 checksums passed matched the Red Hat web sites.

I went to System Settings -> Add/Remove Applications

I scrolled down to Development and checked Kernel Development.

I then put in disk three when I was prompted. I got a an error:

"Error installing packages - there was an error installing packages - quitting"

Sorry, that's all I know about the error. What could this be?

I am on a Dell laptop with the workstation setup on a 6 GB drive 128K.

The kernel source generally go into /usr/src/linux-{version}, which is usually symlinked to /usr/src/linux. Make sure you don't have those directories. If you don't, try running RPM from the command line on the kernel-source RPM and see what error (if any) it gives you. For instance, you would copy your kernel-source RPM to the hard drive and then do rpm -ivh /path/to/rpm from the command line.

My directories are as follows.

/usr/src/redhat

if you ls in /redhat you get the following empty directories:
/BUILD
/RPMS
/SOURCES
/SPECS
/SRPMS

When I go to install the kernel development package it suggests to install the four following packages:

GCC32-0:3.2.3-6.i386
kernel source-0:2.4.22-1.2115.npt1.i386
libacl-devel-0:2.2.7-2.i386
libattr-devel-0:2.4.1-2.i386

OK, I'm trying to understand your instructions. I copied the
kernel-source-2.4.22-1.2115.npt1.i386.rpm
to my home directory then I typed
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rpm -vh/path/to/rpm

in that directory from the terminal.

I get
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-vh/path/to/rpm: unknown option

Alright, I tried it again.

I did:
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rpm -ivh/home/kernel-source-2.4.22-1.2115.npt1.i386.rpm
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I got:
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warning: home/kernel-source-2.4.22-1.2115.npt1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
error: Failed dependencies: gcc32 is needed by kernel-source-2.4.22-1.2115.npt1

OK,

I think I got this all installed. It turned out I had to install gcc32 also.

Thanks everyone.