Help! newbie question

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Wed Apr 19 15:03:58 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 19 April 2006 15:49, Ingemar Nilsson wrote:
> 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.
>
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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