On Wednesday 19 April 2006 15:49, Ingemar Nilsson wrote: > 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. > It took a full minute here. It does a different job, though. It tells you package-names and which repositories hold them, but that's all. Try, for instance yum search mp3 Again you can pipe it to a text file if you wish. Sometimes the output is so great it's better to do that. Anne
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