RE: (Re-)enabling up2date

Thanks - But: (A) before I did something silly,
up2date worked just fine - with fedora, on this system.
So it wasn't just for redhat enterprise commercial --
I just broke the association with Fedora. It must
be possible to undo what I broke... (Yes, I feel
appropriately stupid.)

This was a plain install (+ patches till I broke them)
Of FC3 - not an upgrade from an earlier version. (The
poor machine was suffering under Windoze till then.)

I rather liked having an icon that turned red when there
were updates ready, and 2 or 3 clicks later, the files
downloaded and installed.

On the other hand, I don't mind learning new tricks.
What's the corresponding yum magic for "find necessary
patches current inventory; download, & install"?

Thanks.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Heskett [mailto:gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 11:41
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: (Re-)enabling up2date

On Saturday 03 December 2005 08:58, Timothe Litt wrote:
>In a fit of stupidity, I managed to get up2date unsubscribed from its
>"channel". (I am unable to reconstruct exactly how I got here; it
>involved thinking that getting a Red Hat Network managemente account
>was a good idea; then discovering that getting it to do anything was a
>for-fee service.)

Correct. But a bigger problem is that A, its been deprecated, and B, its
for Redhat Enterprise commercial Versions of linux, the commercial, costs
more than windows, release. So it isn't going to work with fedora, ever.

Fedora uses a utility called yum, which stands for Yellowdog Updater,
Modified. It will do everything the up2date did, faster & better, but using
the fedora repositories you set up in /etc/yum/. The install gives you a
default that setup for your distro FC3, and that should continue to Just
Work(TM) until FC3 has been moved to the legacy status.

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