Re: getting kernel-devel added

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 Hi,


Ben Williams wrote on Tue, 12 Sep 2017 11:35:08 -0400:
hello

This is an issue i am seeing with new users:

I was at a University installfest this weekend and this was the major issues for Endusers.

case A) Students are using Fedora on windows in a VM (Vbox in this case) for a class. they are required for said class to install the guest additions. they are constantly running into errors that the guest addidions will not build  (there install does not have kernel-devel install.  They used the F26 release so now have the release kernel and so they install sudo dnf install kernel-devel and still have issues (kernel and kernel-devel versions do not match).

Case B) third party video or wireless driver same issue no kernel-devel, no wireless no internet == fix by sneakernet


Both of these issues can be easily fixed by including kernel-devel in a group or by adding kernel-devel to all the Desktop Environment kickstarts.
Including kernel-devel will add lots of stuff (e.g. gcc) which are needed to compile something. Which, I think won't happen. kernel - kernel-devel version mismatch is something that happens a lot, so maybe something should be done for that.




To me this simple fix will help our new users and will not leave such a unfriendly feeling (and hopeful increase our contributor base down the road)

Ben

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