Bruce Coryell <bcoryell.DeleteThis@chesco.com> writes:
> I have installations of Fedora Core 6 and CentOS 5.0 (two very similar
> Red Hat clone distros, both using the 2.6.18 kernel) on two different
> machines (one is 32 bit, the other is 64 bit), and I have the same
> problem with the add/remove software update utility (Pirut) on both of
> them: when I click on it, I get a message saying "Unable to retrieve
> software information. This could be caused by not having a network
> connection available." This same behavior happens with both distros
> on both machines (the 64 bit one is brand new, with fairly up to date
> hardware, while the 32 bit is a P3 class machine). Any ideas or hints?
Since Pirut is based on yum, first find out if yum is working.
Try in a terminal as root:
yum list updates
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