Re: Question about kernel update

["Joe St.Clair" <ksimach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This would not be a big problem but I have never done this on a RedHat 
system.  What I am looking for is some information on how to do this.

Juri Haberland wrote:

> Joe St.Clair wrote:
>  
>
> > I asked a couple of days ago about updating the kernel on a couple of 
> > RedHat 7.x systems to 2.4.18-17.7.
> > This is the correct kernel version for the latest update on a RedHat 7.x 
> > system.
> >
> > I have downloaded all of the command RPM's and the needed kernel RPM's. 
> > When I test for dependencies it seems some other packages need to be 
> > updated.  Here is a list of what is needed.
> >
> > libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)
> > perl(strict)
> > LATEXFILE
> > /opt/cpg/bin/do-mgp
> >
> > It seems that the kernel on SGI's site have different dependencies that 
> > the RedHat 2.4.18-17.7 one.
> >    
>
> Well, it depends. Unfortunately the new SGI RPMs are all build for RedHat
> 8.0! Seems that all users with RedHat 7.1 - 7.3 have to rebuild from the
> SRPMs :(
>
> Regards,
> Juri
>
>
>  


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