Re: Up2date not functioning with FC4

From: General Schvantzkoph (schvantzkoph_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/31/05 

Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:35:09 -0400

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:23:09 +0000, Fred Williams wrote:

> On $DATE , General Schvantzkoph wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:32:30 +0000, Mike Underwood wrote:
>>
>>> I did a Fresh install and my UP2DATE does not appear to be
>>> working, or
>>> else everything is up to date. I doubt that since Yum had
>>> hundreds of
>>> updates. My up2date is on and running, just never has any
>>> updates.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>
>> UP2Date is a piece of crap, don't even bother to try and get it
>> working. I've switched to yumex, it's vastly superior to up2date.
>> I think they've included yumex as part of FC4, do a yum install
>> yumex. If that doesn't work you can get the rpm from here,
>>
>>
> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/2170474/com/yumex-0.42-3.0.fc4.noarch.rpm.html
>
> That's great advice. I did that last night and it all installed
> without a hitch. I have some new apps this morning to play with
> and the yumex makes the packages and their descriptions much more
> visible and easier to work with. Thanks!

I'm at a complete loss to explain why Redhat still uses up2date and hasn't
substituted yumex or gyum as their standard updater. Up2date functions
miserably as an updater and it lacks any facility for installing or
removing packages.

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