Installation Question

[Adam Oliner]

Frank,

On Feb 13, 2008, at 6:10 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> I don't believe we released a systemtap build for FC4.


 From the website:
"If you are running Fedora Core 4 or newer, you can install systemtap  
and its dependencies with...[the instructions we followed]"
I guess not?


On Feb 13, 2008, at 6:10 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> For Fedora Core 4, you may need to download by hand (e.g., with a web
> browser) the RPMs from
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/x86_64 
> {,/debug},
> (but I can't see your particular kernel build in there).


We'll give that a shot, anyway. Thank you for the pointers.

  - Adam J. Oliner
    oliner@cs.stanford.edu



On Feb 13, 2008, at 6:10 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:

> For Fedora Core 4, you may need to download by hand (e.g., with a web
> browser) the RPMs from
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/x86_64 
> {,/debug},
> (but I can't see your particular kernel build in there).
>
>
> In any case, FC4 is sufficiently old (both kernel- and compiler-wise)
> that getting systemtap built and run correctly could be a challenge.
>
>
> - FChE