On Monday 14 May 2007 04:30, Scott Berry wrote: > Hi Nigel, > > Two more questions for you. > > 1. How would one add repositories to apt? I have quite a few I would like > to add. These are the 2 that I have in /etc/apt/sources.list in FC6. # Add any local / 3rd party repositories here.. rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/6/i386 freshrpms rpm http://macromedia.mplug.org/ rpm macromedia They are set out differently to the ones for the Fedora repositories, as the Fedora repositories are using a later version of Apt, which uses repo metadata, so you see an entry like this for the Fedora repo's. # Fedora Core repomd http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/ fedora/linux/core/$(VERSION)/$(ARCH)/os/ Basically though, if you go to the site of a third part repo, there are instructions there for adding the repo to your apt sources.list. Sometimes you might have to add the necessary line to /etc/apt/sources.list manually, on other sites you can just click on a link, and the repo will be added to your /etc/apt/sources.list. Either way you also need to download and import the GPG keys for the repositories, so that the packages you want to download can be verified. I normally create a directory named "keys" in my /home/user directory, and download them to that location. Then cd to the keys directory on the CLI, su to root, and run. rpm --import <keyname>. You need to be a bit carefull about having too many third party repositories enabled when doing an apt-get update. You can get some nasty package conflicts when subsequently doing an apt-get dist-upgrade. > > 2. How do I exclude kernels from being updated? Not sure about this using Apt, as I always let the kernel updates go ahead. But I can see the kernels on the Grub menu, and you can't. No text to speech at this stage. I'll post the question to Panu at apt-rpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Perhaps he will have a suggestion. Nigel. Btw. I apologise if you don't understand some of what I've said. I'm sighted, but find it difficult explaining something that I can see, to someone who is blind. Perhaps I should just speak to you, just like I would with a sighted person, perhaps leaving out the GUI stuff. > > Scott > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nigel Henry" <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 4:26 PM > Subject: Re: going back to a previous kernel > > > On Sunday 13 May 2007 21:21, Scott Berry wrote: > >> Hello there, > >> > >> How do you go back to a previous kernel? I read something about grub on > >> the dektop but I don't remember where that is. > >> > >> Scott > > > > Hi Scott. You will find the grub config file, as root on the CLI, > > at /boot/grub/grub.conf. > > > > There are a couple of lines you can make changes to. One is named > > "hiddenmenu" . Put a # at the start of the line, and when you boot up, > > Grubs > > menu will be shown, showing you all available kernels. Also you can > > change the "timeout" line. changing this from 5 to 30 will give you more > > time to choose which kernel you want to boot. > > > > If you are using Apt for getting updates to the system, apt-get update, > > followed by apt-get dist-upgrade, all kernels will be saved to Grubs > > menu. > > > > If you are using Yum, it only saves as default, the 2 latest kernels. You > > can > > change this behaviour by editing /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf > > . Just change the line "enabled=1" to "enabled=0" . This will disable the > > plugin, and subsequent kernel updates will all be saved to Grubs config > > file, > > and will show up on Grubs menu. > > > > All the best. > > > > Nigel. > > > > > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.0/803 - Release Date: 5/13/2007 > > 12:17 PM
