where s my kernel

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Dec 22 15:00:01 UTC 2007


subhodip biswas wrote:
> hi !
>  i am currently using kernel 2.6.23.8-63.fc8.i686 , but i am unable to
> find it in /usr/src/kernels.. though i have kernel-devel installed
> ....... what i have missed to solve the problem

kernel-devel has the kernel headers and not the source code. For 
installing the source code of a package

# yum install yum-utils
# yumdownloader --source <packagename>
# rpm -ivh <srpm name>

Note that this is a question better suited for fedora-list.

Rahul




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