On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 05:33, Ty Spilker wrote: > I went to update Fedora after I had finish installing, it took me nearly > eight hours to finish downloading the updates (in on cable, downloading > these updates at about 2kB/s) When I FINALLY finished the download, the > install stopped. It wouldn't even start, it simply stayed on the screen > doing nothing. I tried this at least 4 times with the same results. You needed to pick a different mirror to make the download faster. How long wait after the download was finished? Yum/up2date is really, really bad at doing a big list of updates. It could take an hour for it to even start to install! use apt-get instead of yum/up2date. apt-get can handle that large list in seconds compared to an hour like yum/up2date. Go to http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/ and get the apt package for Fedora, it should have fc1 in the file name. Open a terminal windows and "su -" to root. Now install the rpm you just downloaded with rpm -ivh apt*.rpm. When the install is done, we need to tell apt-get to look for updates. (Do the following as root) Use this command to check for updates apt-get update Now you can update your system with those updates by running: apt-get upgrade To make things even easier, install synaptic which is a nice GUI to apt-get with: apt-get install synaptic Now you can just run synaptic. To check if there are any newer packages, just click the "Update List" button. From the Show: drop down, you can select Upgradable to see what needs to be upgraded. Select what you want to upgrade and just click the upgrade button. Simple as pie. > Thanks > -Spilk Jim Drabb -- --------------------------------------------------------- The box said: "Requires Windows 98/2000/NT/XP or better." So, I installed LINUX! --------------------------------------------------------- James Drabb JR Senior Programmer Analyst Davenport, FL USA
