howto enable automatic updates without gui

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 1 16:00:40 UTC 2009


Paul W. Frields wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 09:24:25AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
>> Tom Diehl wrote:
>> 
>> > On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Neal Becker wrote:
>> > 
>> >> How can I enable automatic updates on a F10 box without having a
>> >> desktop login (that is, I have ssh access)?
>> > 
>> > yum install yum-updatesd
>> > 
>> > Then modify /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf to taste.
>> > 
>> > Regards,
>> > 
>> 
>> OK, that's old-school :)  I thought packagekit was supposed to handle
>> this stuff.
> 
> It does; check your GNOME main menu, under System > Prefs > System >
> Software Updates.
> 

Yeah, but how can I enable that without a gui?





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