Installing source code of the kernel
 

Hi,
i went to the Redhat Linux website and downloaded kernel-2.4.20-8.src.rpm (to /home/vasanth in my workstation). then i went to this directory location /home/vasanth and did:

rpm -i kernel-2.4.20-8.src.rpm

however the output message was:

warning: kernel-2.4.20-8.src.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e
error: cannot write to %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES

could someone in this forum explain the reason for this? any help would be great.
Thank you.

Did you run that as root? It sounds like you don't have the correct permissions for this.

no. now,after logging in as "su", it went through. still the warning message came but it had installed linux-2.4.20.tar.bz2 in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES.
one of my questions is:
did: "rpm -i kernel-2.4.20-8.src.rpm" do anything to my Redhat software or system which is already there? or did it just expand the src package and put the contents of the package in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES? did it put the contents in any other location also?
my intent is just to browse the kernel source code, and no intention to modify or compile the existing kernel.
i want to ask this question before untarring the "linux-2.4.20.tar.bz2".
Thank you.