I'm running Fedora and am trying to get the patches with up2date. Its telling me that I need to associate to a channel, however when I log into the account on redhat there is no channel for fedora. Any suggestions???
Thanks Lanelle
Lanelle:
Welcome to Fedora! You may want to learn how to your updates with a tool called yum. Here's a whirlwind tour of how to get yum configured to do updates for you:
1. save this file locally: http://fedorafaq.org/samples/yum.conf 2. open a terminal, type su and give it your password. 3. move the yum.conf file to its proper place with this command: mv /whateverpathyouusedtosaveyumconf/yum.conf /etc/yum.conf 4. update your system with this command: yum update
Hope this helps get you going! There is some more information about how to use yum to install additional software for your Fedora system at this web address: http://fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware
If you want yum to update your system for you automatically each night, then this is all you need to do:
1. Click on Redhat -> System Settings -> Server Settings -> Services
2. give it your root password
3. put a checkmark in the box for yum, and start it. Save and exit.
If you've already tried to log into a redhat network, you may have to do some minor re-configuration to get up2date working properly again, but others are better able to help you with that than I am. However, this article might be of some help:
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror/
Clint
