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On 04/11/2010 08:47 PM, Henry Wyatt wrote:
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type="cite">How do I become superuser "root" ?<br>
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<div class="h5">On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:20:20 -0400, Henry wrote:<br>
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> Just installed Fedora 12, much better than other operating
systems. I am<br>
> new to this and have the following problem. I cannot update
software,<br>
> update fails, I will send error mesage at next attempt to update.<br>
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Might be an idea to open a terminal, become superuser "root", and<br>
run: yum update yum\* PackageKit\*<br>
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Right at the top left corner of the screen is the dropdown menu listing
Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal.<br>
Once the Terminal is up and running at the prompt type in <br>
$ su - <br>
the system will ask for the ROOT [super] user password. Once that is
typed and submitted the prompt will change to #, and will be ready for
accepting commands allowed for super user ,and then you can run <br>
# yum update yum<br>
or simply the following command as yours is a fresh install.<br>
# yum update<br>
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Hope this helps.<br>
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