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kernel-devel-2.6.18-238.el5.x86_64.rpm dependency for dkms

User779259-OracleMar 8 2012 — edited Mar 8 2012
Hi,

I am trying to install VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.8_75467_rhel5-1.x86_64.rpm on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6.
During installation it fails with following error:

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sh-3.2# rpm -i VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.8_75467_rhel5-1.x86_64.rpm
warning: VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.8_75467_rhel5-1.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 98ab5139

Creating group 'vboxusers'. VM users must be member of that group!

No precompiled module for this kernel found -- trying to build one. Messages
emitted during module compilation will be logged to /var/log/vbox-install.log.

Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]
Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules [ OK ]
Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS [FAILED]
(Failed, trying without DKMS)
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules [FAILED]
(Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong)
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So I tried installing dkms and it failed with following error.

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sh-3.2# rpm -i dkms-2.1.1.2-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm
warning: dkms-2.1.1.2-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6b8d79e6
error: Failed dependencies:
kernel-devel is needed by dkms-2.1.1.2-1.el5.rf.noarch
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Now I am not able to find rpm for kernel-devel (kernel-devel-2.6.18-238.el5.x86_64.rpm ).

Any idea?
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