Kernel-source RPM For "Minimal" Fedora Core 2 Installs

Matias Feliciano feliciano.matias at free.fr
Sat May 29 19:09:58 UTC 2004


Le sam 29/05/2004 à 20:48, Robert L Cochran a écrit :
> I did a "minimal" Fedora Core 2 install mainly to play with. You don't 
> get X with this -- fine by me. To that I wanted to add the rpm's needed 
> for software development. One of these is the kernel-source RPM. This 
> package requires qt-devel and gtk2-devel, each of which in turn has a 
> long list of dependencies. Using rpm -ivh --force... doesn't seem to 
> work.

Try "--nodeps".

>  To keep things small, I installed the kernel src.rpm package, and 
> edited the spec file to remove the requirement for qt-devel and 
> gtk2-devel. Then built it with rpmbuild --bb and finally installed the 
> new kernel-source rpm.
> 
> That in turn allowed me to do 'make menuconfig' which is all I really 
> need for this "play" system.
> 
> Is there a less complicated way to get around the qt-devel and 
> gtk2-devel requirements just to install the kernel source on a system 
> without X?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- 
> Bob Cochran
> Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
> http://greenbeltcomputer.biz/
> 
> 
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