On 5/7/08, Ralph Angenendt <ra+cento AT br-online.de> wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote: > > Scott: Great! If I can locate kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 and > > kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 I can use the rpm -e command to remove them > > and then yum update again and that should update the kernel in her box. > > How do I locate them? > > Why locate them? rpm -e takes the package *name*, not the package > itself. Yes. I woke up about 430 this morning and I realized that rpm can locate the file by itself. :-) However, I want to learn how to use find that Mark (mhr) mentioned! [lanny at compaq1300 ~]$ su - Password: [root at compaq1300 ~]# rpm -e kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 [root at compaq1300 ~]# rpm -e kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 [root at compaq1300 ~]# yum update Loading "priorities" plugin Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files 263 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Downloading header for kernel to pack into transaction set. kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 100% |=========================| 258 kB 00:03 ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 set to be installed --> Running transaction check Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: kernel i686 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 updates 13 M Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 1 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 13 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: (1/1): kernel-2.6.18-53.1 100% |=========================| 13 MB 03:36 Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Installing: kernel ######################### [1/1] Installed: kernel.i686 0:2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 Complete! [root at compaq1300 ~]# exit Notice that: I was able to remove both files, with rpm -e without any problem and I was able to run yum update, and it installed the new kernel, but not the kernel-header file. [lanny at compaq1300 ~]$ uname -a Linux compaq1300.HOMELAN 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP Thu Mar 15 19:57:35 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [lanny at compaq1300 ~]$ After rebooting the box, it is still on the original kernel, rather than on the new kernel. I just installed kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 again. Was that correct or not? Probably very close to solving this now! Thanks much to everyone who has contributed ideas! Lanny