Am Mo, den 17.11.2003 schrieb steven rosen um 02:22: > As you will see I'm new to this having recently installed RH9 and > planning to migrate to Fedora. I use the Up to Date icon which came with > the original install. You can still use up2date in Fedora > Now that RH9 is to be abandoned, I want to know > how to get Yum installed Yum in installed by default > so I can get automatic updates w/ all dependant > files. There already is a service for nightly updates via yum, you just need to enable it. > Is there a tutorial or basic instructions in general terms > showing what files or rpms I need to get for Yum you'll need the yum-<version>.rpm, that's all. > and how to install them > so that I click an icon and get everything updated. Well, not with a click, but you can do "yum update" on the console. If you add "-y" you can do it automatically (an even from a starter-icon), but you won't have any feedback to see what's going on. I think someone on this list posted a script, which will update your system and send you an email with the changes. > I've checked Google, this mailing list and the Red Hat usenet group but > everything assumes that Yum is installed and running. There is no man > page for Yum. There /is/ a man page for yum (it's in man 8). Yum is pretty simple. Type "yum" and read the instructions. Christoph
