From 066e0c0154fd18b9fb4fa880474adb98f27bd091 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ddomingo Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:58:17 +1000 Subject: BZ484506, added yum setup instructions for RHEL --- doc/SystemTap_Beginners_Guide/en-US/Installation.xml | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc/SystemTap_Beginners_Guide/en-US') diff --git a/doc/SystemTap_Beginners_Guide/en-US/Installation.xml b/doc/SystemTap_Beginners_Guide/en-US/Installation.xml index 1ff2ff29..3a45d269 100644 --- a/doc/SystemTap_Beginners_Guide/en-US/Installation.xml +++ b/doc/SystemTap_Beginners_Guide/en-US/Installation.xml @@ -186,8 +186,22 @@ uname -r Note Running as root will display the required kernel packages and install them as well, provided that yum and yum-utils are configured properly. - + + In order for yum to find and download the required kernel packages, you need to + point it to a repository containing those packages. Most required kernel packages can be found at + ; navigate there until you find the + appropriate Debuginfo directory for your system. Configure + yum accordingly by adding a new "debug" yum repository file under /etc/yum.repos.d containing the following lines: + + + +[rhel-debuginfo] +name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Debug +baseurl=ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/$releasever/en/os/$basearch/Debuginfo/ +enabled=1 + + -- cgit