On Monday 07 February 2005 01:11, Alan McDonald wrote: >I have to admit that even though I have worked with Linux a little > over the years, I'm just a newbie with many things... >But I have to ask, why so many dependent rpms are missing from the > fedora distro Cds. I wanted to use gcc, so I start trying to > install and like other things requiring dependent libs, gcc > requires, in this instance, kernel-headers which is not on the CDs. >Can someone tell me why? >Alan The distro is not 'incomplete' but your install was I suspect. You did install all the 'development' stuffs? If not, then you should do so before squawking about missing stuff that you may have left out on purpose, or through not understanding the ramifications of leaving it out. Either way its not the distros fault. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
