Help! newbie question

[Ingemar Nilsson]

Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> 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