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Re: Where is the RH6.2 linux source?



Thanks, Adam, for the response despite my retreat to the novice list,

Bruce Smith had written:

> >And both get installed during a _custom_ install if you
> >select the "development" option, along with a bunch of other
> >RPM's needed to compile the kernel.  I hate telling people to
> >re-install, but it may save you time in the long run if you
> >don't know what RPM's are needed to compile the kernel.
> >(I can't list them all off the top of my head either)
>
> Nah,  it would be a good learning experience.  You should need make, gcc, bin86, and binutils.  That's about it.  If you use a GUI RPM installer liek gnorpm it'll do dependency selection for you.

My feeling exactly.  So far I/m missing some  fundamental   .h files such as stdio.h which seems strange in that I've installed the gcc rpm.
Thanks for the list of the needed utilities.  I have the first two, now for bin86 and binutils.  I've checked out gnorpm.

    Best,   Ralph    deal@kzoo.edu