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By Debjit on June 17th, 2009

fedora logo Installing Build and Kernel Headers for your Linux distribution is very easy using the yum tool available in Red Hat based systems. Fedora which is the Community's free Red Hat , can also have the Linux Build and Kernel headers installed using the yum tool. Just use the following command to install the build and header files for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora Linux or CentOS:

sudo yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers

Remember using this command you can install build and kernel headers on all Red Hat based Linux Distributions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora Linux and CentOS . For Installing Build and Kernel Headers on a Debian or Debian based system like Ubuntu, see this.

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Parikshith

The above command will install the latest kernel headers, meaning not necessarily same as the actual kernel installed. So to get the kernel headers corresponding to your actual kernel number, a better command will be
sudo yum install kernel-devel-$(uname -r)
- Bobisdrunk22
  
  thanks Parikshith
Tony

Thanks. Great help!
- Anonymous
  
  Amazing tips
sandy

while entering this command ot will ask for sudo password what are we supposed to do
guest

Sorry, new to Linux so I hope this is not a dumb question. I get a “No package kernel-devel available” message when I execute “sudo yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers”. How do I resolve this?