update FC4

Hammer matteo.hammer at gmail.com
Tue Jul 19 09:57:22 UTC 2005


> Hammer wrote:
> > I have a question on FC4. Is possible to download the updates of FC4
> > on a pc with windows or slackware and install on another pc with FC4 ?
> 
> Yes, it is.
> 
> Download the update packages and separate them into two directories, one
> containing kernel* packages and one containing the other packages.
> 
> The non-kernel packages can all be updated easily by running "rpm -Fvh
> *.rpm" in the directory containing those packages.
> 
> The kernel packages should be installed rather than updated (rpm
> "-ivh"), and the packages to install will depend on you system, whether
> you want to build kernel modules yourself etc.
> 
> Paul.

thanks.


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