Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system?

On Thu, 25 May 2006, devmazumdar wrote:

How does one check the existence of the kernel source RPM (or deb) on
every single distribution?.

We know that rpm -qa | grep kernel-source works on Redhat, Fedora,
SuSE, Mandrake and CentOS - how about other RPM based distros? How
about debian based distros?. There doesn't seem to be a a single
conherent naming scheme.

Actually it does not on later versions of fedora (4 & 5). The headers are included, but not the source. If you want to build modules, you must have kernel-devel installed.

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