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Problem installing VISA on Fedora10 (Kernel 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64)

Hi guys, i have been trying to install visa on my fedora10 laptop.

i refered to the document on http://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-2928

while installin NIKAL 1.90 i get the following error:

*****************************************************************************
  NI-KAL Installer Distribution
     version 1.9.0f0 for Linux
*****************************************************************************

National Instruments products support the following Linux distributions:
   Mandriva Linux Official
   openSUSE
   Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop + Workstation
Refer to README.txt for the latest information at the time of release.
Refer to www.ni.com/linux for the most recent information about Linux
support at National Instruments.

Continue? [Yn] y

Checking required install tools...
Checking installer tool versions...
dpkg       Not found in current path
rpm        4.6.0 can be used with a default installation path
tar        1.20
Checking dependencies...
glibc      2.9
2.9
Unpacking install files to /tmp/nikal-1.9.0f0.install...

************************************ ERROR *************************************
* Kernel source does not appear to be installed for the 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64 kernel.
*    Installation of the kernel-source package for kernel 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64 is
*                   required to continue this installation.
************************************ ERROR *************************************

Installer is aborted.

What should i do? I need to do this real fast

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Try:

yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers

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