2.6.10-1.737_FC3smp kernel source?

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:40:45 -0800, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:17:49 -0600, Otto Haliburton
> <ottohaliburton at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-
> > > bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mark Knecht
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 7:11 PM
> > > To: Otto Haliburton
> > > Cc: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> > > Subject: Re: 2.6.10-1.737_FC3smp kernel source?
> > >
> > > On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:00:07 -0600, Otto Haliburton
> > > <ottohaliburton at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-
> > > list-
> > > > > bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mark Knecht
> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 6:48 PM
> > > > > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> > > > > Subject: 2.6.10-1.737_FC3smp kernel source?
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >    A late in the day update brought me a new kernel for my wife's new
> > > > > machine. I need to get source code for the kernel so that I can
> > > > > rebuild ndiswrapper. (Please correct me if I'm wrong about this.)
> > > > > Where can I get source code for this to put under /usr/src?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Mark
> > > > >
> > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/SRPMS.  I think this
> > > the
> > > > total link but you can go to download.fedora.redhat.com and figure it
> > > out.
> > > > 1. rpm -ivh kernel?????
> > >
> > > Otto,
> > >    The address was close and I found the kernel. However I don't like
> > > the results of the next step:
> > >
> > > [root at dragonfly mark]# whoami
> > > root
> > > [root at dragonfly mark]# pwd
> > > /home/mark
> > > [root at dragonfly mark]# ls
> > > Desktop
> > > kernel-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.src.rpm
> > > [root at dragonfly mark]# rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.src.rpm
> > > error: cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
> > > [root at dragonfly mark]#
> > >
> > > Why can't rpm create the source directories?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mark
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > the only thing I can thing of is that you are not logged in as root, and you
> > have to be root.  From what you sent it looks as though you are but you can
> > cd to /usr/src/ and see if redhat is there it should be and if not create it
> > and see if that will fly
> >
> > 
> No, when you start the Add/Remove applet it makes you type in the root
> password. I think the problem is the basic RPM hell problem. RPM isn't
> smart enough to find the dependencies itself. It just leaves it to you
> to find them.
> 
> I'm trying yum now....
> 
OK, yum seems to do the trick.

yum check-update

to get it started, and then 

yum install gcc

which pulls down gcc and three other dependencies with it.

Probably I'll be able to get stuff this way as I find I need it.

Thanks,
Mark