The tool I use for doing the search for installable packages is apt/synaptic from freshrpms.net Satish >>>>>>>>>>> [asterix]: rpm -q xosview package xosview is not installed [asterix]: apt-cache search xosview xosview - An X Window System utility for monitoring system resources. [asterix]: apt-get install xosview Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: xosview 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 67.8kB of archives. After unpacking 146kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386/os xosview 1.8.0-11 [67.8kB] Fetched 67.8kB in 1s (55.2kB/s) Executing RPM (-Uvh)... Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:xosview ########################################### [100%] [asterix]: