On Tuesday 25 January 2005 17:10, Tim Alberts wrote: > Redhat comes with the nice program up2date to install latest updates. > It's got the nice icon on the start bar that says 'updates available' > click on it log in and download... With the Up2date program available in fedora core 3 you have the best of both worlds. Personally i use both up2date *and* yum - up2date for officially released updates and yum for 3rd-party pkgs. it is perfectly happy to use yum repos with a little reconfiguration... look at the mirrors list on fedora.redhat.com to find a local mirror, which will probably be a yum or apt repository read /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources My 'sources' file has the original lines commented out and a specific mirror site put in instead because (like you) I was tired of the mirror list bouncing me to an unavailable mirror... the two new lines in my sources file look like this: yum zeniiia-fedora-core-3 http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/ yum zeniiia-updates-released http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386/ they are exactly two lines, each starting with 'yum' this mirror has never failed me yet... you would, of course, want mirrors nearer to yourself, wherever you may be. hence the advice to find the mirror list at the FC website. HTH Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX History repeats itself only if one does not listen the first time.
