Error in installing Kernel Source for Fedora?

[magomago]

Hi- I'm trying to install the source for the kernel in Fedora so I can install some other things and I've hit a weird wall. I open up the "add remove packagas" and then from there I go down to "kernel dev" and select it. I press okay and then it said 'please insert Disk1". Now right here my secondary drive (cdrw) started to flash but I popped in Fedora disk1 into the DVD since that is where I installed it from. I did it and then it gave me an error

So I figured stick it in the CDRW since it seemed to like that. I get the same thing...It says

Error installing packages

There was an error installing packages.

Exiting.


Anyone know how to remedy this problem? I'd really like to install the kernel source to get stuff up and running 🙂 (specifically tv-out since Win2k has been crapping on me even after installing the lastest patches and drivers and whatnot)

Thanks

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Geez.. what a helpful error message. As usual (since guis are so awesome), the gui tools tend to omit lots of information that you'd get from the command line tools, so I guess I'd recommend doing it via command line. Pop in the cd, mount it, find your kernel source rpm on it, and run something like "rpm -ivh <path to kernel source rpm>". I think that's correct anyways. Redhat experts may arrive shortly to correct me. 😛

 

[magomago]

now just as i was about to do what you said I popped in the RH disc 1 for fun...it autostarted and sure enough it said "analyzing packages" and let me try once more. I did it and then wa la it started to install....Turns out to get the kernel source in I needed around 80 more package installed 😉 so its installing and then it hits the package "Libacl-devel-2.2.7-2" and just hangs there. I checked out the system resources and I have about 250 megs of swap (man linux eats ram! better increase the swap soon) left and the CPU usage is still @ 0. I'vfe waited and while and now I'm confused as to how to fix it. :\

nvm- turns out i need disc 3...*sigh* /me goes to download it

let u knoe of any updates 🙂!

 

[cleverhandle]

As BBWF suggested, you should read up on command line RPM - because there's no way you should have to install 80 packages to get the kernel source. It's probably the crappy package manager being "helpful." Notice

[tppytel@hydra-fedora ~]$ rpm -qR kernel-source-2.4.22
/bin/sh
fileutils
gawk
gcc >= 2.96-98
gcc32
libc.so.6
libm.so.6
make
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1

Those are the requirements - pretty much bog standard stuff, except for the gcc32 package.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Also note that linux will use as much of your memory as possible for disk cache. To find out how much is *really* being used by apps, run "free", and look at the line that says "+/- buffers/cache".