useing up2date to get software

[Law Horne]

Well I don't think this has been discussed before. But I was looking at 
all the talk about what up2date is in relevance to yum and apt. Now 
understanding that the new channels that come with the latest version of 
up2date are actually  yum repos, and that they contain all the software 
for fedora. My question basically is as follows, is there a way to 
download and install programs not currently on your system within 
up2date( I realize you can do this if you put the channels in yum)? Or 
is up2date strictly(at least at this time) for updates?

[Peter Boy]

Am Mi, den 05.11.2003 schrieb Law Horne um 01:20:
>  for fedora. My question basically is as follows, is there a way to 
>  download and install programs not currently on your system within 
>  up2date( I realize you can do this if you put the channels in yum)? Or 
>  is up2date strictly(at least at this time) for updates? 
you can run

    up2date  --install  [PACKAGE NAME]

For details see  man up2date



Peter

[nosp]

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 00:20, Law Horne wrote:
>  is there a way to 
>  download and install programs not currently on your system within 
>  up2date 
Sure, run "up2date <newpackage>"

Check out "man up2date":

[...]
 If the package is not currently installed, it will  be  downloaded  and
installed, along with any dependencies that package requires.
[...]

[Randy Eckenrode]

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 19:29, nosp wrote:
>  On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 00:20, Law Horne wrote:
>  > is there a way to 
>  > download and install programs not currently on your system within 
>  > up2date
>  
>  Sure, run "up2date <newpackage>" 
I’m not sure if that was what the
original message were asking. I think
he wanted to know if one could install software through the graphical
up2date front-end, which is not the case at the moment. According to bug
#108455, work is being done to make this possible.

--Randy Eckenrode