dan1 wrote: > I have installed CentOS 4 on a server in a hosting company and I realise > that not all packages have been installed. as has already been pointed out - you dont really need all the packages from the distro. Just install what you need. > I am in fear that there would be other packages installed than only the > ones from the default CentOS install by typing 'yum install *' if this > is possible. > If you have not added any more external repositories, no external packages will be installed. Try something like this 'yum install *.noarch *.i386 *.i686' - that will bring in everything from the CentOS repository. - K -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ GnuPG Public Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc