[plug] FC 11's rpm says kernel is not installed

[Richard Meyer]

On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 01:23 +0800, Ari wrote:
> Ari wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I just noticed something a bit odd (in my limited experience):
> >
> > rpm -q kernel
> > package kernel is not installed
> >
> > I'm pretty sure it IS installed, as the FC11 box is actually running...
> >
> > Has something changed in how I'm supposed to query my kernel version?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Ari
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> >
> uname -rs gets me the info that I want, but I'm still curious as to why 
> rpm -q no longer works...

Seems common - my output from a SUSE 11.2 machine

> richard1 at Selous:~> rpm -q kernel
> package kernel is not installed
> richard1 at Selous:~> rpm -qa | grep kernel
> kernel-docs-2.6.3-44.4.noarch
> kernel-desktop-2.6.31.5-0.1.1.i586
> linux-kernel-headers-2.6.31-3.4.noarch
> kernel-source-2.6.31.5-0.1.1.noarch




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Richard Meyer
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