fedora 8 nidaqmx 2.1

[mngolo]

    hi everyone i need to install the nidaqmx 2.1 in fedora 8, but ium having a big problem, the instalation process suspend with the folowing error:
************************************ ERROR *************************************
* Kernel source does not appear to be installed for the 2.6.23.1-42.fc8 kernel.
*    Installation of the kernel-source package for kernel 2.6.23.1-42.fc8 is
*                   required to continue this installation.
************************************ ERROR *************************************
i try this "yum install kernel-devel 2.6.23.1-42.fc8 " to solve the matter, but i have an error that i cant go around which is this:
Transaction Check Error:
  package kernel-devel-2.6.23.15-137.fc8 (which is newer than kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8) is already installed

Error Summary

sameone can help me on this, i really need to get this work to my master thesis (im new to linux), if anyone can help thanks in advance

P.S.-sorry my bad english

[Shawn B.]

Well, to start Fedora is not officially supported by National Instruments so if you can I would suggest using openSUSE, Mandriva, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  While the problem you are experiencing here should be easy to fix there will be some more issues that will be harder to fix.  If you must use fedora I recommend searching the forums for "fedora" and you will find some threads with tips that might help like this one Fedora 7 NIDAQmx installer.

With that out of the way here are my suggestions:

1.  Do you need NI-DAQmx, or does NI-DAQmx Base provide the support you need?  NI-DAQmx Base is updated more frequently and should be easier to install.
2.  In general you should always install the latest version of NI-KAL first.  This should reduce/eliminate most issues during install.

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@mngolo wrote:

************************************ ERROR *************************************
* Kernel source does not appear to be installed for the 2.6.23.1-42.fc8 kernel.
*    Installation of the kernel-source package for kernel 2.6.23.1-42.fc8 is
*                   required to continue this installation.
************************************ ERROR *************************************
i try this "yum install kernel-devel 2.6.23.1-42.fc8 " to solve the matter, but i have an error that i cant go around which is this:
Transaction Check Error:
  package kernel-devel-2.6.23.15-137.fc8 (which is newer than kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8) is already installed

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Which kernel are you currently running?  You can find this by running "uname -r".  Additionally which kernels do you have installed?  You can check this by running something like "rpm -qa | grep kernel" which will show you all installed rpms that have "kernel" in the name.  The key here is that you need to have a matching kernel-<version>.rpm and a kernel-devel-<version>.rpm installed and be running that kernel usually by selecting the proper grub menu entry when you boot the machine.  The easiest way to do this should be to run:

yum update kernel
yum update kernel-devel
reboot

Shawn Bohrer
National Instruments

[bruno2040]

You have ton install the kernel source.
To do that, simply download kernel-***.src.rpm; where *** is your kernel version, then run the command :
rpm -Uvh kernel-***.src.rpm