See if you can do this: cat /etc/issue It's there in CentOS, not sure what Amazon is using.
Jess On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Mike Rathburn <[email protected]> wrote: > I have to do a manual install of an RPM package (openoffice-writer) on an > Amazon Linux AMI. The package isn't available via Amazon's yum > repositories. I know that Amazon Linux is enterprise linux (EPEL), per the > info here: http://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/ > > > > The RPM will be grabbed from here: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=3 > < > http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=3&limit=1&srodzaj=3&dl=40&search=openo > ffice.org-writer> &limit=1&srodzaj=3&dl=40&search=openoffice.org-writer > > > > When I do a 'uname -a' on the machine, I get: > > > > Linux ec2-187-77-143-124.compute-1.amazonaws.com2.6.35.14-106.49.amzn1.i686 > #1 SMP Fri Dec 2 18:20:01 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > > > Can anyone provide some insight as to what RPM version I should be pulling? > I'm suspecting some version of CentOS. Is there another place to look to > get more detailed info on what I have? > > > > -MikeR > >
