FC5 Pukes on my machine

Kevin Cozens kcozens-qazKcTl6WRFWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
Tue May 9 15:27:19 UTC 2006


Paul King wrote:
> I had seen that, but I was fooled by a link in the RedHat Update (Up2Date) 
> dialog, which comes up after clicking s button on the "RH Network Alert 
> Notification Tool". The link on the dialog box opened a web browser to 
> https://rhn.redhat.com so I could "learn more" about subscriptions.
[snip]
> The deal is, that the CDs are a year old, and surely there must be a ton of 
> updates needed to be downloaded. The RH Notification Tool is supposed to detect 
> these updates and notify me by an icon in the upper toolbar. It hasn't done that.
> 
> And when I tried to coax the process by launching Up2Date, that is where the 
> trouble started. It began searching a couple of packages, then hung forever on 
> ImageMagick.

I used to find that the up2date tool would usually (appear to?) hang if there 
were too many files that needed to be updated at one time.

Now that you have mentioned up2date and the RHN tool in relation to FC5, I see 
your problem. Since you are jumping from FC3 to FC5 you aren't aware that the 
up2date and the RHN Tool stopped being the programs used to update a Fedora 
Core machine as of FC4. In FC4 you use yum to update the machine. If you want 
a graphical tool for updating your machine, you can use Yum Extender.

That said, you should check the FC web site for information about the changes 
in FC from version 3 to version 4 and from version 4 to version 5. You might 
still be able to use yum but there are other tools provided in FC5 which are 
meant to keep a machine up to date. I don't remember what the new tools are 
called off-hand as I am only running FC4. I have not yet updated my machine to 
FC5.

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