How do i tell if the fedora-release package is installed? is that the gui for add/remove programs. If it is when i try and look at that i get "unable to retrieve software information. This may be cause by not having a network connection" i am connected to a network though?
No worries, we all start somewhere :-) File and directory structures are (I'm doing this by memory, so some path names might not be exactly correct :-) /var/cache/yum/ <--- YUM base directory say, so we'll put: $base_dir = /var/cache/yum hence: /var/cache/yum/updates-released == $base_dir/updates-released (where == means 'same as') so: /var/cache/yum/updates-released/[temporary files, recognised by _some_ files having .XML extensions] /var/cache/yum/updates-released/headers/[header files, recognised by _all_ files having .HDR extensions] /var/cache/yum/updates-released/packages/[RPM install files, recognised by _all_ files having .RPM extensions] This applies to other repositories (as described by files found in /etc/yum.repos.d/[repo files with .REPO extension]), such as Base (fedora.repo), Extras (fedora-extras.repo) etc. Any of these directories may or may not be found in your $base_dir above, because they only get created when YUM (or Yumex for that matter) polls the repo servers to update/install software. If you are able to run in graphical mode, maybe Yumex would be more illustrative/graphical. Although you'd need to yum that in from the Extras repository. Hmmm... Anyways, do you plan to keep the RPMs after you've updated/installed? If so, 'yum clean all' will wipe out all temporary files, headers and RPMs that you've downloaded, which are all considered as cached files. I normally just manually bomb the temporary files found in: /var/cache/yum/updates-released/[temporary files, recognised by some files having .XML extensions] but keep all .HDR and .RPM files in their respective directories. Also note that Yumex defaults to wiping out your cached files on update/install, so go in... configure not to clear cache... exit, and re-enter Yumex if you want to keep your .RPMs And ask as many questions as you want :-) HTH Stu@
