Ben Logan a écrit :

> On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 04:54:42PM +0200, Mustapha Hadim wrote:
> > Emmanuel Seyman a écrit :
> >
> > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 01:09:43PM +0200, Mustapha Hadim wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Indeed, I  typing, rpm -q kernel-2.4.18-3.src.rpm, to install the source
> > > > kernel, and the problem is not resolved.
> > >
> > > You probably want the file kernel-source-2.4.18-3.i386.rpm .
> > > Install that using "rpm -Uvh" and you'll find the source code
> > > in /usr/src/linux-2.4/ .
> > >
> >
> > What I wanted to install is the package : kernel-2.4.18-3.src.rpm.
> > The package exists on the source code CD of RedHat Linux 7.3.
> > I did : rpm -Uvh ... .
> > The problem is that it seems that this package do not contains all
> > the source files of the kernel 2.4.18-3, needed by my application.
> > Then, I am trying to get them from www.kernel.org.
>
> The kernel-2.4.18-3.src.rpm does contain the kernel source, but not in
> the form you want it.  It allows you to recompile the kernel yourself,
> and build the RPMs you can get from RH.  If you have applications that
> need the kernel includes, then you'll probably just want the
> kernel-source-2.4.18-3.i386.rpm as mentioned above.
>
> Note that when you install a *.src.rpm, it doesn't (AFAIK) go into the
> RPM database at all.  The files get installed into /usr/src/redhat (by
> default), but that's it.  So if you later try to query said RPM, rpm
> won't even know it has been installed.
>
> HTH,
> Ben

Thanks for H.
Just another precision, I have an i686 processor machine.

Mustapha




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