[mythtv-users] Trouble installing lirc on FC4 (lirc-kmdl-2.6.14-1.1653_FC4)

[Raphael Pooser]

Tommy Nijem wrote:

> Hello I am using Jarod Wilson's Myth install guide for FC4.
> Everything works OK except for lirc. I believe the problem is that 
> there is not a packge for lirc built for my kernel version. I am 
> somewhat new to linux(long time computer user...just not Linux). So I 
> may be off base.
> Anyways, when I try "# yum install lirc-kmdl-$KVER" I see "no match 
> for argument lirc-kmdl-2.6.14-1.1653_FC4".
> I did a lot of googling and searching but could not find the answer. I 
> also tried installing lirc 0.7.2 from lirc.org <http://lirc.org> but 
> when I tried to compile I received an error that my kernel sources 
> were missing.
> I am a bit over my head here and looking for some knowledgeable advice.
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
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And of course, if in the future you need to install anything else from 
source and need the kernel source, most likely it is already in your 
/usr/src directory, just tar.gz-ed up.  Just extract them and then 
probably you need to ln /usr/src/linux or similar to the exact directory 
that got created when you unzipped the source.  If you don't have the 
tar.gz file either you can install a package, something like 
linux-kernel-headers or kernel-devel etc. etc. using your distro's 
packaging program.