If you are doing the updates manually, using the asterix should be fine as it will ask you to go ahead before doing anything. Most (large) software has multiple files, hence the need for the asterix. Using the asterix in a very general way such as yum update o* is probably a bit to general and will find all sorts of software, unless you want to update everything beginning with o :) -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael D. Berger Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2006 12:38 PM To: 'For users of Fedora Core releases' Subject: RE: yum update openoffice The asterisk did the trick. Is there a generality I should infer from this, or are there hidden risks? Thanks, Mike. -- Michael D. Berger m.d.berger@xxxxxxxx [...] > Try yum update openoffice* > > Or if your yum is set to run nightly automatically it may already be > updated and not need any new updates. > > Cheers. > [...] > > Seeing the recent announcement for the openoffice update, I typed: > > yum update openoffice > > Not much happened, and it said there was nothing to update. > Did I do the wrong thing? > Thanks for your help. > Mike. [...] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
