On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 01:47:57 +0200 doro schelch <doro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Howard, > Thank you for your quick reply! Sorry about not answering at once - I was > away hiking in the Olympics. > I suppose by 'opening a terminal' you mean opening a console window? When I > open the console, it comes up with /home/user> (which I don't know how to > remove in case that is necessary)- when I add which rpm (without inverted > commas) nothing happens, when I add 'which rpm' I get bash: which rpm: > command not found. > I guess there is a small thing I have to do for the command to work which > you didn't tell me because for you it is obvious - not for me, however (if > you haven't noticed already, you will know now that I am a total ignoramus > as far as the inner workings of Linux are concerned). > Thank you for your patience! > Dorothea > > > > Dorothea, > > > > > Can you figure out what form of Linux is running on your computer? > > > > Please open an terminal, and type `which rpm`. > > > > This will give us some idea of what update software is running on your > > machine. Dorothea, I am trying to figure out what distribution you have, and how to do updates. If you have a Red Hat based Linux like Fedora or Mandrake, your package manager would be rpm, and I would know what to do. `which' is a pretty basic UNIX/Linux command, so your operating system may be seriouly stripped down. The tag "/home/user>" is your bash command prompt. It is indicating what directory you are sitting in. Your home directory is /home/user. I have added the Linux List email to the cc list. Hopefully, there are some Debian folks out there who may make a suggestion. Make sure you replace to all. -- Howard Gibson hgib...@eol.ca howa...@optech.ca http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson
