[CentOS] kernel-devel rpm

Sun Apr 1 10:43:53 UTC 2007
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 19:44 -0400, Dave wrote:
> Hello,
>     I'm trying to install VirtualBox on a test CentOS 4.4 system following 
> the guide on howtoforge. As a preliminary i'm trying to retrieve the 
> kernel-devel rpm, which contains the headers and libs needed to compile 
> kernel modules. I've tried:
> 
> yum install kernel-devel
> 
> as well as added an arch to that in this case i686 and i keep getting the 
> msg nothing to do. The only item i can think of is i have enabled the 
> protectbase yum plugin, if this is my problem i'd like to make this file an 
> exception. My kernel version is 2.6.9, the default one that came with CentOS 
> if that matters.
>     Any suggestions welcome.
> Thanks.
> Dave.

That usually means that the package is already installed ... try:

rpm -q kernel-devel


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