Easy way to update Fedora

[Timothy Murphy]

M. Lewis wrote:

>> - since you are fairly new I would recommend going with fedora extras
>> and livna as your repo's
>> - the other option is the rpmforge packages - 4 RPMforge repositories
>> (FreshRPMS, PlanetCCRMA, Dries and DAG)
>> - THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT - do not mix fedora-extras/livna with
>> RPMforge - choose one or the other not both.
>> - if you want to get help with RPMforge repo's go here
>> http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/ and http://freshrpms.net/ and
>> http://atrpms.net/dist/fc4/
>> 
>> - now for fedora-extras/livna which is what I use
>> livna.org
>> - http://rpm.livna.org/configuration.html
>> - To start using the rpm.livna.org repository in yum simply install
>> the livna-release  rpm package:
>> - rpm -ivh
>>
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/RPMS.lvn/livna-release-4-0.lvn.2.4.noarch.rpm
>> - don't forget to follow steps on the configuration page to install the
>> gpg key
>> 
>> fedora-extras
>> - rpm.livna.org is not a standalone repository. You must use
>> rpm.livna.org with Fedora Extras. In Core 4 Fedora Extras is included
>> in the default configuration and works out of the box. Fedora Core 3
>> users need to add Fedora Extras manually.
>> - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/UsingExtras
>> 
>> Once you have fedora-extras/livna installed you will be able to
>> install any package that is in the repo's, I am going to start with
>> searching packages first though.

> Great writeup Gerald! Thanks.

I don't entirely agree, I am afraid.
There are three standard fedora repositories,
namely fedora, fedora-updates and fedora-extras.
In my view it is unwise to introduce other repositories,
particularly if yum does not appear to be working.

I agree that the rest of the advice was very good.



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