Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "Fedora Project Wiki" for change notification. The following page has been changed by JefSpaleta: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Kernel The comment on the change is: Updated the instructions concerning the use of yumdownloader to pull kernel srpm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ {{{ su -c 'yum install yum-utils' - su -c 'yumdownloader --source kernel' + yumdownloader --source kernel }}} Enter the `root` password when prompted. + + For the yumdownloader command to work you must first enabled the appropriate 'source' repository definition. You do not need to be root to use yumdownloader, it will work as a normal user once the correct 'source' repositories. In the case of the kernel released with fc5 you must enable 'core-source' by editting the file'/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo' setting 'enabled=1' in the '[core-source]' repository definition. For update kernels you must do a similar edit to the file fedora-updates.repo and possible fedora-updates-testing.repo if you are using a testing kernel. 1. Install `kernel-<version>.src.rpm` using the command:
