On 1/22/06, jdow <jdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: "Robert L Cochran" <cochranb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Yesterday I attempted to service my mother-in-law's FC4 computer, which > > I know needs about 100 Mb or so worth of updates -- most of that for > > OpenOffice. I only have a short window of opportunity to do this since > > she lives a fair distance. Each time I ran 'yum update' I would get > > responses very similar to this: > > > > [...] > > Reading repository metadata in from local files > > primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 969 kB 00:34 > > extras : ################################################## 2815/2815 > > Added 15 new packages, deleted 12 old in 3.45 seconds > > No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion I don't see the fedora-updates repository in there. She's not getting updates because her machine isn't configured to install them. Create a file in /etc/yum.repos.d called fedora-updates that contains the following: [updates-released] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora Then re-run 'yum update'. -- Chris "I trust the Democrats to take away my money, which I can afford. I trust the Republicans to take away my freedom, which I cannot."
