> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:11:55PM +1100, Alan McDonald wrote: > > 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. > > > $ rpm -q --whatprovides kernel-headers > glibc-kernheaders-2.4-9.1.87 > > It might have been more helpful to title your post "can't find > kernel-headers package" -- your current one seems a bit over-worried. :) > > -- > Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx well now I might be even more worried because the anser to whatprovides on my Fedora Core 2 is not glibc-kernheaders but kernel-headers-2.4-9.34 and that file is not present on my distro.. What else don't I undertand thanks Alan