How to view what hardware has been detected in FC6
John Bowden
john.bowden43 at blueyonder.co.uk
Fri Dec 15 03:13:16 UTC 2006
On Friday 15 December 2006 02:30, Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 11:48 PM +0000 12/14/06, John Bowden wrote:
> ...
>
> >I have installed dmidecode and lshw through the package manager with out
> > any error messages. I tried to run them from a terminal as a user and
> > root but get the same message "no such command". Checked it was installed
> > by doing a search in the package manager with the all radio button
> > checked and they are installed. What am I doing wrong?
>
> How did you become root? If you use "su -", you will get root's
> environment, including the path; if you use "su" you keep your current
> environment. /sbin isn't on a normal user's path.
Ah I did not know that. You learn something new every day!
>
> To find where a packages files are, use "rpm -ql <packagename>". (That's a
> small L.) Once you know where the file is, you can run it by full path.
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Will have a go tomorrow, er later today. The match sticks holding my eyes
open just snapped so I shut the fc6 box down ready to hit the sack.
Thanks john
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