apparently it gets stranger. i executed the below and while it didnt complain, neither did i get a yum. type yum shows yum installed where on your more coherent system? tia,jackc... On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 16:19 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 15:00 -0800, jackc wrote: > > thx for your reply craig, > > > > weird though, which doesnt see it, rpm doesnt, neither does the cmd > > line. > > > > [root@linland tmp]# id > > uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6 > > (disk),10(wheel) > > [root@linland tmp]# which yum > > /usr/bin/which: no yum in > > (/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin) > > [root@linland tmp]# yum > > -bash: yum: command not found > > > > > > > > [root@linland tmp]# rpm -ql yum > > package yum is not installed > > > > is it supposed to be installed after an everything install of fc4 ? > > i thought i had done all on the distribution, was i supposed to load it > > later? > > > > thx... > ---- > that is odd...seems that it would be hard to install FC-4 and not get > yum installed. > > Anyway, this should do the trick for you (assuming i386) > rpm -Fvh \ > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/yum-2.4.1-1.fc4.noarch.rpm > > Craig > -- Jack Craig XPath/SAS Team Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. 1600 Technology Dr. San Jose, CA 95110 408.333.7478 Direct E-mail: jcraig@xxxxxxxxxxx