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From: Bruce Coryell on 28 Jul 2007 10:58
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?
From: Dan Espen on 28 Jul 2007 11:24
Bruce Coryell <bcoryell(a)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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