Installing Development Packages for Kernel

[Rick Stevens]

On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 11:55 -0300, Rodrigo Faria Tavares wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I made a custom instalation using FC4, withtout the deveopment
> packages, still
> the make menuconfig in source kernel, not happen.
>  
> What are the packages with compilation kernel ?

FC4's "kernel-devel" package only includes the headers and such for
building a kernel--it does NOT include the kernel source.

If you want to build a custom kernel:

1. Go to some repository and download the kernel SRPM for the kernel
you want.  For example, the URL for FC4 kernel source RPMs off the
kernel.org mirror site is:

	http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/4/SRPMS/

2. Install the kernel source RPM via "rpm -i".

3. Execute the following commands as the root user:

	# cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
	# rpmbuild -bp target=i686 kernel-2.6.spec

4. To create your normal kernel development area, as root:

	# cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.(majorversion)
	# mv linux-2.6.(majorversion) /usr/src/linux-2.6.(fullversion)

5. Create your symbolic links as the root user:

	# cd /usr/src
	# ln -s linux-2.6.(fullversion) linux-2.6
	# ln -s linux-2.6.(fullversion) linux

6. Configure the source and such:

	# cd /usr/src/linux-2.6
	# make menuconfig

In the discussion above, "(majorversion)" refers to the major version
of the kernel (e.g. "2.6.15"), "(fullversion)" refers to the full
version number (e.g. "2.6.15-1.1851_FC4").

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