old-school

[Robin Laing]

Rickey Moore wrote:
> 
> 
> */Robin Laing <Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca>/* wrote:
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> 
>     What was the last version you used?
> 
>     Read about "yum". From the extras, I have installed yumex as it gives
>     me a GUI for package admin.
> 
> <g> The 'last version' I really used was around RH6 or so...
> 
> I'll check out "yum" although the issues since way back when is if you 
> can't get to the internet readily, you are in deep doo doo. Especially 
> if the update you need is there and I find myself not there. <cackles>
> 
> I'm looking through bugzilla, and a search on "kstartupconfig' doesn't 
> seem to dig up anything. What I'm looking for is the repository of the 
> briefs that used to be announced saying "Update for foo.rpm is 
> available, and you must install the packages in this order <blah 
> blah>".! Or was that Caldera that did that? <eg>
> 
> Thanks for any considerations, Ric
> 

Yum does most of that for you now.  It will check for dependencies of 
a package and then include that in the downloads.  I have not looked 
at the errata's since RH8.  With yum, if I want to install a package, 
I either type in "yum install {package name}" or use yumex and select 
the package.  Then yum will ensure that all the dependencies are met. 
  You can get a list of updates in the same way.  man yum for more 
details.

As one other poster mentioned, login as root, type in yum update, 
select yes and go have a brew.  The first full update will take hours 
as there is almost a gig of updates if I remember correctly.

If you want software from a different repository, it is as simple as 
enabling the repository and getting a list of applications.  It is 
time for you to do some reading up on yum.  It is allot different and 
nicer than the old download, install what will install, download the 
dependencies and install what will install ......