Jim Freeze
9/22/2003 5:44:00 PM
On Tuesday, 23 September 2003 at 2:32:08 +0900, Thomas Adam wrote:
> --- Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> wrote: > On Tuesday, 23 September 2003 at
> 1:49:04 +0900, Thomas Adam wrote:
> > > --- Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> wrote: > Ok, I know nothing about
>
> > Like I said, I know nothing. I think the distro is Red Hat 7.1, but
> > I don''t know how to get the machine to tell me.
>
> ``
> uname -a
> ''''
I did that one, but it didn''t tell me what I wanted to know:
Linux betty 2.4.20-20.7smp #1 SMP Mon Aug 18 14:46:14 EDT 2003 i686
unknown
>
> And also doing:
>
> ``
> less /etc/issue
> ''''
This one did the trick:
Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)
Kernel \r on an \m
>
> Will help ascertain this. If it is RH, try issuing:
>
> ``
> rpm -qa | grep -i ruby
> ''''
rpm -q ruby
ruby-1.6.7-2
Does Linux have a remote way to query what packages are
available or a URL with a listing?
--
Jim Freeze
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