Modutils Update

[Jazzalex]

Hi ! This is a real newbie question but anyways : I use SUSE 7.0 and want to do a kernel update from 2.2.? to 2.4.9 but the problem is that I don´t know how to update the Modutils. I loaded it down in two formats : one is a .RPM-File which I can´t install because of a too old RPM-Version (?) and the other is Patch which I don´t know how to install. Can anyone give me a hint what to do ? Thanx in advance Alex

[bdg1983]

If your original modutils was installed via rpm (rpm -q modutils to check), then I would suggest you download the source rpm package.

modutils-2.4.10.src.rpm (for example)

and then rebuild using

rpm --rebuild modutils-2.4.10.src.rpm

If successfull, the binary package will be in

/usr/src\<your distro>/RPMS/i386

And then you upgrade the package using

cd /usr/src/<your distro>/RPMS/i386

rpm -Uvh modutils-2.4.10.i386.rpm

If you would rather use the tar.gz, then

tar -zxvf modutils-2.4.10.tar.gz

cd modutils-2.4.10

./configure
make
make install

You should read the install instructions for the tar.gz package first the make sure what I have posted is correct.