Re: How to *update* a Fedora Core 3 component program?

From: Bo Berglund (bo.berglund_at_telia.com)
Date: 05/31/05

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Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 23:33:19 +0200

    On Fri, 27 May 2005 13:57:52 -0700, Florin Andrei
    <florin@andrei.myip.org> wrote:

    >Your puzzlement is legitimate, given the kind of advice you received.
    >
    >Here's the procedure (everything needs to be run as root):
    >
    >1. Do this just once:
    >rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY*

    Worked without errors... :-)

    >2. Then, whenever you want to update the system, do this:
    >
    >yum update

    I tried yum update yum and it worked fine, which it did not before I
    had done step 1 above! :-)
    >
    >You can update just one package if you wish (albeit it's generally
    >better to update everything):
    >
    >yum update firefox

    This also worked fine now, my Firefox is 1.0.4 and running :-)
    >
    >To install a package that's not on your system:
    >
    >yum install package-name-here

    Tried this as well as part of the PPTP support install process and it
    works without errors after yum update yum.

    Thanks for your pointers!

    Bo Berglund 

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