Fedora Users — Re: Fedora 12 Update Error

On 04/11/2010 08:47 PM, Henry Wyatt wrote:

How do I become superuser "root" ?

On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:20:20 -0400, Henry wrote:

> Just installed Fedora 12, much better than other operating systems. I am
> new to this and have the following problem. I cannot update software,
> update fails, I will send error mesage at next attempt to update.

Might be an idea to open a terminal, become superuser "root", and
run: yum update yum\* PackageKit\*
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Henry E Wyatt Jr

Right at the top left corner of the screen is the dropdown menu listing Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal.
Once the Terminal is up and running at the prompt type in
$ su -
the system will ask for the ROOT [super] user password. Once that is typed and submitted the prompt will change to #, and will be ready for accepting commands allowed for super user ,and then you can run
# yum update yum
or simply the following command as yours is a fresh install.
# yum update

Hope this helps.

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