not enough space on disk to upgrade

[Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX]

On 11/11/2013 12:35 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> I don't seem to be able to find a yum option to not download 
> everything before installing anything. Thus, before upgrading has 
> begun, yum has reduced freespace to 10%, and transaction check thinks 
> it needs more than what was required before beginning to proceed with 
> the upgrade. Freespace before trying to upgrade was 21%, which I would 
> expect to change no more than nominally as a result of upgrading. Is 
> there no such option?
There is - sort of.  Yum update package ...      As in yum -y update vlc

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