[PlanetCCRMA] new kernels for fc4/fc5

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Thu Jul 27 22:02:02 2006


On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 22:56 +0200, Bert Visser wrote:
> >> I tried it this morning and the strange thing was that it didn't work
> >> when using Yumex (the same error about the kernel being older than the
> >> installed one) but it did work from the command line.
> >>
> >> BTW, it installed the 2.6.16-1.2080.16.rrt kernel. Is this correct, I
> >> mean is this the latest one?
> >>
> >> Greetings,
> >> Bert
> >>     
> >
> > Yes. Thats the correct kernel.  I've just checked Fernando's previous post. I 
> > must say I'm not too impressed with Yumex compared to Synaptic, the GUI for 
> > Apt.  Synaptic is pretty much tied in with Apt, but Yumex seems to work a bit 
> > independant of Yum, which probably explains why you were still getting 
> > problems with it.
> >
> > Nigel.
> >   
> Yes, you're quite right; the combination Apt/Synaptic worked muched 
> better together than Yum/Yumex.
> Perhaps Smart is a better alternative but I haven't yet been able to add 
> the Planet's repositories to it.
> 
> BTW, where can I find the kernel-devel package for this kernel?

Same place as the kernel. Just "yum install kernel-devel", if you don't
get the right version just add the version you want, for example:

  yum install kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2080.16.rrt.rhfc5.ccrma

-- Fernando