On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 21:51 +0000, Darren Foster wrote: > On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 22:08 +0200, Stuart wrote: > > > 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 > >/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] > > None of the above exist on my machine, how do i rectify this, assuming > your memory is correct that is. > > On the other hand the following are here but empty... > > /var/cache/yum/core/headers > /var/cache/yum/core/packages > /var/cache/yum/extras/headers > /var/cache/yum/extras/packages > /var/cache/yum/livna/headers > /var/cache/yum/livna/packages > /var/cache/yum/updates/headers > /var/cache/yum/updates/packages > > being cache folders I'm assuming its OK to be empty? or is it bad? > > Arrrghhhhh. Help!!! > > Despite all the problems I'm actually finding this quite refreshing > compared to using windows. > > Also this is giving me a great insight into how it all works. ---- maybe you don't have fedora installed... try this, what is output of? cat /etc/*release Craig
