Krikket said: > On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, William Hooper wrote: >> Krikket said: >> >> > And the really embarassing question... Does anyone have any thoughts >> on >> > how to install the kernal source? apt/synaptic doesn't seem to have >> it, >> >> Are you looking to build your own kernel or kernel modules? You need >> the >> kernel-source package. > > I'm trying to get the alsa drivers running on my laptop, so I can have > sound. The RPM doesn't seem to be cutting it for me, and the chipset is > definately supported... Then you definitely want the kernel-source package: [whooper@kenny whooper]$ sudo /usr/sbin/up2date --dry-run kernel-source Password: Fetching package list for channel: fedora-core-1-local... Fetching http://snowball/fedora/1/i386/os/headers/header.info... ######################################## Fetching package list for channel: updates-released-local... Fetching http://snowball/fedora/updates/1/i386/headers/header.info... ######################################## Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: fedora-core-1-local... Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: updates-released-local... Fetching rpm headers... Name Version Rel ---------------------------------------------------------- The following Packages were marked to be skipped by your configuration: Name Version Rel Reason ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- kernel-source 2.4.22 1.2135.nptlPkg name/pattern The following packages you requested are already updated: kernel-source [whooper@kenny whooper]$ Notice that be default the package is skipped so you must use "-f" with up2date. >> Are you wanting to look at the patches that Red Hat has added to the >> kernel.org kernel? Then you need the kernel src.rpm package. >> >> > and the add/install program feature is just broken.. >> >> Without more detail, this is a completely worthless statement. > > If the system gave me any useful error messages, I would have included > them. It doesn't. I get a generic "install failed" type of message with > no rhyme, reason, or anything else of use. I felt it wasn't necessary to > spell that out, because I understood that it was generally understood that > the add/remove features is pretty severely broken in Fedora... (Badly > enough that I don't know anyone who's succesfully installed *anything* > using this method.) On the other hand, I see no showstopper bugs in bugzilla saying it doesn't work at all. What output do you get when you run redhat-config-packages from a terminal? What version of redhat-config-packages are you running? -- William Hooper
