On Fri, 27 May 2005 13:57:52 -0700, Florin Andrei <florin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Your puzzlement is legitimate, given the kind of advice you received. > >Here's the procedure (everything needs to be run as root): > >1. Do this just once: >rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY* Worked without errors... :-) >2. Then, whenever you want to update the system, do this: > >yum update I tried yum update yum and it worked fine, which it did not before I had done step 1 above! :-) > >You can update just one package if you wish (albeit it's generally >better to update everything): > >yum update firefox This also worked fine now, my Firefox is 1.0.4 and running :-) > >To install a package that's not on your system: > >yum install package-name-here Tried this as well as part of the PPTP support install process and it works without errors after yum update yum. Thanks for your pointers! Bo Berglund
