RHEL and Fedora: Fix package installation order.

Closes #238 Also see openzfs/zfs#12822 Signed-off-by: Maurice Zhou <[email protected]>
openzfs · Dec 15, 2021 · 6f435e5 · 6f435e5
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diff --git a/docs/Getting Started/Fedora/index.rst b/docs/Getting Started/Fedora/index.rst
@@ -26,9 +26,15 @@ see below.
 
     dnf install -y https://zfsonlinux.org/fedora/zfs-release$(rpm -E %dist).noarch.rpm
 
+#. Install kernel headers::
+
+     dnf install -y kernel-devel
+
+   ``kernel-devel`` package must be installed before ``zfs`` package.
+
 #. Install ZFS packages::
 
-    dnf install -y kernel-devel zfs
+    dnf install -y zfs
 
 #. Load kernel module::
 

diff --git a/docs/Getting Started/RHEL-based distro/index.rst b/docs/Getting Started/RHEL-based distro/index.rst
@@ -62,13 +62,17 @@ package, then the *kernel-devel* and *zfs* packages. Note that it is
 important to make sure that the matching *kernel-devel* package is installed
 for the running kernel since DKMS requires it to build OpenZFS.
 
-For RHEL/CentOS versions 6 and 7 run::
+For RHEL/CentOS versions 6 and 7, separately run::
 
- yum install epel-release kernel-devel zfs
+ yum install -y epel-release
+ yum install -y kernel-devel
+ yum install -y zfs
 
-And for RHEL/CentOS 8 and newer::
+And for RHEL/CentOS 8 and newer, separately run::
 
- dnf install epel-release kernel-devel zfs
+ dnf install -y epel-release
+ dnf install -y kernel-devel
+ dnf install -y zfs
 
 .. note::
    When switching from DKMS to kABI-tracking kmods first uninstall the