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    How do I install Kernel from SRPM

    All I can find to update Oracle Linux to a Kernel version which is not
    the latest is a SRPM.

    The below is a link to the document in question, I have downloaded the src.rpm because that is all I can find.

    Question is what do I do with the downloaded file, New to linux sorry if I aks simple question.

    [El-errata] ELSA-2008-0233 Important: Enterprise Linux 5 kernel security and bug fix update


    http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-upda....1.el5.src.rpm

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    You need to build the source rpm into a binary rpm by doing
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    rpmbuild --rebuild somefile.src.rpm
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