> If you are running Linux, there IS a package manager installed. We
> simply need to figure which one. It would help if you know the flavor on
> Linux you are using. I know the hosting company does because they
> probably asked which distro. you want to use.
>
One way to get more details of exactly which Linux distro and version
you're running is to run the command
cat /proc/version
from a terminal window. For example, here's my result for Fedora 9:
$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.27.9-73.fc9.i686 (mockbuild@) (gcc version 4.3.0
20080428 (Red Hat 4.3.0-8) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Tue Dec 16 15:25:05 EST 2008
"fc9" in the kernel version and "Red Hat 4.3.0-8" are the giveaways for
Fedora: other distributions will differ.
Martin
