Thanks - But: (A) before I did something silly, up2date worked just fine - with fedora, on this system. So it wasn't just for redhat enterprise commercial -- I just broke the association with Fedora. It must be possible to undo what I broke... (Yes, I feel appropriately stupid.) This was a plain install (+ patches till I broke them) Of FC3 - not an upgrade from an earlier version. (The poor machine was suffering under Windoze till then.) I rather liked having an icon that turned red when there were updates ready, and 2 or 3 clicks later, the files downloaded and installed. On the other hand, I don't mind learning new tricks. What's the corresponding yum magic for "find necessary patches current inventory; download, & install"? Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------- This communication may not represent my employer's views, if any, on the matters discussed. -----Original Message----- From: Gene Heskett [mailto:gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 11:41 To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: (Re-)enabling up2date On Saturday 03 December 2005 08:58, Timothe Litt wrote: >In a fit of stupidity, I managed to get up2date unsubscribed from its >"channel". (I am unable to reconstruct exactly how I got here; it >involved thinking that getting a Red Hat Network managemente account >was a good idea; then discovering that getting it to do anything was a >for-fee service.) Correct. But a bigger problem is that A, its been deprecated, and B, its for Redhat Enterprise commercial Versions of linux, the commercial, costs more than windows, release. So it isn't going to work with fedora, ever. Fedora uses a utility called yum, which stands for Yellowdog Updater, Modified. It will do everything the up2date did, faster & better, but using the fedora repositories you set up in /etc/yum/. The install gives you a default that setup for your distro FC3, and that should continue to Just Work(TM) until FC3 has been moved to the legacy status. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.36% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
