Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 May 2006 14:27:13 -0700 (PDT) | From | alan <> | Subject | Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system? |
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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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