From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Moyer Subject: Re: Newbie Question Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 14:28:33 -0400 Sender: autofs-bounces@linux.kernel.org Message-ID: <16667.46801.458839.821849@segfault.boston.redhat.com> References: <411BAE2F.8040309@analog.com> Reply-To: jmoyer@redhat.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <411BAE2F.8040309@analog.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: autofs-bounces@linux.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Anne.Bourgeois" Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org ==> Regarding [autofs] Newbie Question; "Anne.Bourgeois" adds: anne> I am pretty new to the list, and I have a very basic question. How anne> do I install the kernel patch so that I can install the autofs rpm? What distribution are you running? Do you want to patch a kernel from that distribution (recommended), or run a vanilla kernel from kernel.org? anne> When I tried to just install the new autofs rpm, I got a dependency anne> error: anne> liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by autofs-4.1.3-13 anne> libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by autofs-4.1.3-13 If you're running Fedora, I'd suggest upgrading your current system with yum. anne> I already have autofs-4.1.3-9 installed and didn't see any dependency anne> errors when I installed that. Well, there should be no added dependency requirements. You _could_ try doing an rpm -i --force of the autofs package. anne> Is there information somewhere that I can go find about installing anne> the kernel patch? Certainly, but let's figure out which kernel you want to build, first. -Jeff