Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system?

[alan]

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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