[rhn-users] Update software through up2date - Problems

Clinton Fernandes cfernand at utm.utoronto.ca
Wed Jun 1 16:01:24 UTC 2005


The RedHat Network will do all that for you.

You can schedule package installation to occur whenever (I'm not sure what
governs when they're installed)

Or you can download the packages you want and use rpm to install them.

-- 
          my tail is dun.


Quoting Johan Holst Nielsen - Print2People ApS <jhn at print2people.com>:

> Alfred Hovdestad wrote:
> > I think I found a workaround for this problem.  I was updating an 
> > Opteron box and I received an error like:
> > 
> > "unresolvable chain of dependencies:
> > rpm-libs 4.2.3-21 requires libelf.so.1
> > 
> > (or something like that - it has rolled off of the screen already).
> 
> Something like the same I message i recieved :)
> 
> And you steps helped me a lot :) Everything seems up2date now :)
> 
> Thanks a lot :)
> 
> Anyway - and pretty new to Redhat - I usual used Debian in the past :) 
> So I have one question - there is a nice tool inside Gnome - Add/Remove 
> Applications.
> 
> The dumb thing is that I need to change CD all the time, when I install 
> new software - it is pretty annoying when I need to install a lot of 
> different software. Is there a way to change this, so I use the internet 
> to get the packages instead? :) Or do I need to download the packages 
> from redhat manually (eg. with wget?).
> 
> regards and thanks,
> Johan
> 
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