AquaFX Posted April 27, 2004 Share Posted April 27, 2004 tried to update redhat and it froze so i restarted my computre and now it says this... anyone know of a way to reset the update manager? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AquaFX Posted April 27, 2004 Author Share Posted April 27, 2004 sorry if i am asking alot of question, i am still learning...thanks for the help in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted April 27, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 27, 2004 If I recall correctly, you will need to have the PGP key. But I think that should be handled automatically when you first connect. Is this RH9 or Fedora? P.S. The RedHat RPM system works well as long as you stick with the official Red Hat software. Once you start trying newer versions and other packages, it will stop updating those items - I believe. I switched my Fedora over to "yum", which is a nice front-end to RPM management. It looks at the headers and resolves dependencies for you, and offers to download the 'extra' items to update your system. It requires a simple edit to your up2date config, and then you will use yum from the command line (at least that is how *I* do it). In short, up2date is fine, but I preferred yum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AquaFX Posted April 27, 2004 Author Share Posted April 27, 2004 If I recall correctly, you will need to have the PGP key. But I think that should be handled automatically when you first connect.Is this RH9 or Fedora? P.S. The RedHat RPM system works well as long as you stick with the official Red Hat software. Once you start trying newer versions and other packages, it will stop updating those items - I believe. I switched my Fedora over to "yum", which is a nice front-end to RPM management. It looks at the headers and resolves dependencies for you, and offers to download the 'extra' items to update your system. It requires a simple edit to your up2date config, and then you will use yum from the command line (at least that is how *I* do it). In short, up2date is fine, but I preferred yum. nah i 'm not using Fedora, umm...it should handle it up it's being bad..., YUM.., so it's an update manager? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted April 27, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 27, 2004 nah i 'm not using Fedora, umm...it should handle it up it's being bad..., YUM.., so it's an update manager? Yes. It stands for Yellowdog Updater, Modified. There is a good read on it (in simple enough terms for anyone to understand) here: http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/ It works on most (all?) RedHat and other RPM-based distros like Mandrake or SuSE as well, I should think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holgr Posted April 27, 2004 Share Posted April 27, 2004 Could you possibly send the output of a console running up2date -u and up2date -l? I think there went something wrong while your PC crashed (ie. one package installed that needed another one, and that needed one couldn't get installed due to the crash) Edit: First run up2date -l then up2date -u (-l lists the the package available for installation/update, -u tries to install/update them) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AquaFX Posted April 27, 2004 Author Share Posted April 27, 2004 alright will do as soon as i get home... =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AquaFX Posted April 27, 2004 Author Share Posted April 27, 2004 it siad the same thing as it did when i tried using the gui...i might just try YUM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AquaFX Posted April 27, 2004 Author Share Posted April 27, 2004 alright, it seems my kernel installation also messed up so i'm just going to reinstall redhat fresh and do all the updates before i install any of my drivers or programs...hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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