Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > To find which kernel version you have, open a terminal (aka console) and type > uname -a Actually, uname -r gives just the kernel version, and omits the hostname, build dates, etc. This is especially useful for referring to e.g. the module path for the running kernel: ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/ > To see what's available try > > yum search term I haven't tried that. I usually run yum list available > available-packages.list so that I can look for packages without waiting for yum to check the repositories, which takes a few seconds. Regards Ingemar