Another way without using MandrakeUpdate is to rpm -qa | grep kernel. This 
will list the packages on your system.

On Sunday 09 September 2001 15:59 pm, you wrote:
> Run MandrakeUpdate and see what packages it reccomends - Done push the
> button to download em - do that manually.  ftp the packages it lists to
> /tmp and then cd /tmp and "rpm -ivh kernel*.rpm" (note the "i") and let
> rpm work out what's needed.  It will tell you if something is missing
> that it needs.
>
> BillK
>
> On Sun, 2001-09-09 at 20:02, Dennis Myhand wrote:
> > A brief question to the list.  I just downloaded the 2.4.8 kernel,
> > source, header, and documentation packages from rpmfind.net, after
> > seeing that the 2.4.7 update was listed in my security update list.  I
> > have been reading the notes about NOT using Mandrake update and to do it
> > manually.  My question is, which packages and in what order do I install
> > them?  Thanks, Dennis in Victoria
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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